Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with self is always an indication of development, and it is a sign of health for a nation to be able to stand the withering fire of criticism that both England and America are at present undergoing at the hands of their own people. Only the other day I heard one of your own professors, speaking of the University, say. "One of the worst features of this wretched place is......". For the moment, I though I was in England again. That is exactly the talk one hears at Oxford. It is perhaps less violent in England than here, because...
...established political parties in America. This fact is perhaps abhorent to the young man who distrusts the old names and the old battle cries, but if he really prefers results to flag waking and accomplishment to revolutionary words, he will take his coat off and try to make himself heard inside the party councils...
...rounding the bend in the Charles just above the Cambridge Boat Club. The bow of one of the shells was broken completely off just forward of the combings, and the other boat had a gaping hole stove in its side. Fortunately for those rowing, Head Coach Brown, and Coach Heard of the 150 pound crews were both nearby, and succeeded in getting all the oarsmen into their launches and towing the shells the short distance to the Newell boathouse before they sank...
Then, calmly, gently, with Grecian repose, the executive relapsed into silence. And the Official Spokesman again was heard, this time telling the defiant ones that the President had talked not of his politics, but of his personaltiy. If he choses Bruce Barton as his confidante, in preference to more inquisitive souls, that, after all, was his own business. Henceforth, however, the President was to be quite mute. Again the chatty wraith would roam Capitol Hill. The reporters went away musing, and thinking that possibly the executive was not nearly so speechless as he appeared...
...Empire was to be Republican. But it quickly passed away; and no French man, except perhaps Carnot, made so manly a protest as the man of genius at Vienna who had composed the 'Sinfonia Eroica' and, with a grand republican simplicity inscribed it, 'Beethoven a Bonaparte'. When the master heard that his former hero had taken the imperial crown, he tore off the dedication with a volley of curses on the renegade and tyrant; and in later years he dedicated the immortal work to the 'memory' of a great...