Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been in the Navy continuously more than 39 years and never heard the word used as referring to a sailor until during the recent World War. It is only the recruits or some new men in the service that do not object to the use of the term. All the officers and 90% of the men regard the word as an insult on account of its offensive real meaning...
Belated wayfarers along North Harvard Street have become timid these cold nights. They report that as they pass the Soldiers Field fence opposite the new Business School the have heard ghostly voices in the darkness, and the occasional ring of a bell. Investigation in the archives of Allston has found no record of a bell-ringing spectre that haunts the southern edge of the Lars Anderson Bridge...
...Hosey changed the location of court. Here was difficulty. San Antonio missed the honor by having too many resident Catholics, who, it is felt, might have some ground of annoyance against one who has never spared them with his tongue. Dallas and Houston were debarred, as the judge had heard that Mr. Norris had "experienced trouble" there. Austin was said to be too small, but was finally elected, faute de mieux...
...Pastor's story is self-defense. L. H. Nutt, elder in his church, says he heard Chipps threaten bodily harm to the Pastor. One Carl Glaze, 14, only witness of the tragedy, has signed a statement declaring he saw Chipps shot to death in an anteroom to the pastor's study...
...circus rider. She brought to court with her a small baby (called the "mystery child" because of its obscure parentage). Erratic, obese, disheveled, suffering from a mortal organic disease, she said that she was driving her mule down a lane the night that Dr. Hall was killed. She heard shots in a field, saw flashes of light, hands groping, momentarily terrible faces. She saw a man pitch forward under a crabapple tree...