Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these things and found them good. That night fireworks spurted up from a barge anchored in the bay, and Vesuvius made notable His Majesty's visit by an almost polite eruption. No lava spilled from the great cone, but jets of pinky-lighted steam spurted high, portentous rumblings were heard, and few rocks were belched...
...nothing new to state that people are more interested in themselves than they are in anything else in the world. Tell a man that you saw his name in a newspaper or in a magazine, or that you heard his name mentioned by some public speaker, and his interest mounts instantly. Races, no less than individuals, are interested in themselves...
...slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that far off day when the North was shocked with a concrete illustration of how the institution of slavery functioned. As he talked, the woman who stood beside him saw, perhaps, not men and women of 1927 but men and women of 1860; heard, perhaps, not his voice...
...papers. Desks and strongboxes were rifled; but the two large safes in the basement proved too much for the police. Soon workmen with safeblowing apparatus arrived. Pneumatic drills were featured in their technique, and all the next day a purring t-t-tat-tat-tat-t-t was heard in Moorgate street. Finally the safes were burst open, more trucks backed up, more papers were trundled away...
...were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death in the waters of the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland. Several reputable citizens of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, swore that they saw (others heard) a plane in the air at about the hour that the White Bird was due. But a thorough combing of land and sea in this district had not yet revealed even so much as a strut of the White Bird...