Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana. Senator Reed heard a myriad of tales from a one-time Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan to the general effect that if Senator James E. Watson kept on being a good friend of the Klan he would some day be President of the U. S. Then he would appoint one William F. Zumbrunn (a man who "wines and dines" with Senators and their wives) as Ambassador to Mexico. Whereupon, Senator Watson called Senator Reed to his bedside in an Indianapolis hospital, informed him that it was all a great lie. Said the Senator from Indiana...
...Junior Class football team won its third straight game when it defeated the Seniors yesterday afternoon by a 3 to 0 count. A 30-yard dropkick by Heard, 1928 quarterback, decided the issue in the third quarter of a hard-fought game...
This occasion in the third period when Heard made his field goal was the only time during the game that the winners threatened the 1927 goal. The Seniors, on the other hand, playing a much more aggressive game than heretofore, started two strong attacks against the Junior's goal-line, but heavy offside penalties nullified these advances. At one time Byshe of the Senior team recovered a 1928 fumble and ran for a touchdown, but the hall was brought back because Byshe kicked it before picking...
...believers in the innocence of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti could have asked no more than that all the pleas, objections, exceptions or motions of any sort in behalf of these convicted men should be heard, considered and duly weighed by the tribunals of this Commonwealth. These pleas or motions have been so heard, or are yet to be heard. The proceedings in the case have occupied our courts in one way or another since Sept. 14, 1920, when the Grand Jury of Norfolk County returned indictments charging the two men with the murder of Allesando Beradelli and Frederick...
...middle of the game," said Lewis, "I heard one of the Penn tackles, Sam Goodman, exclaim in a tone of amazement, "What's the matter? We can't seem to gain anywhere." We held them consistently, and managed to get a touchdown and a field goal, winning the game 10-0." The team also defeated Yale, Army, Brown, Carlisle, Amherst, Dartmouth, Bowdoin and Williams that year...