Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock in the afternoon his son, his grandson, his daughter-in-law and numerous old friends, including Attorney General Sargent and the Governor of Vermont, assembled in his home and heard the service read. It lasted only 14 minutes. Officers of the National Guard carried his body to a sleigh hearse; other sleighs followed to a little graveyard on the hillside close to his ancestral acres...
Last week the House Committee on Weights and Measures heard the opponents of the Britten Bill (TIME, Feb. 22) which would require the use of metric units in place of English units in retail merchandising and in transportation...
...Preston, his son Richard Cleveland, a Baltimore lawyer, and his daughter Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, were present. The faded shingle bearing the name "G. Cleveland" which hung in front of a law office in Buffalo many years ago, was presented to Richard Cleveland. Mrs. Susie Cleveland Yeomans, 83 (sister), heard tributes to her brother by radio in her Brooklyn home...
...first group of oarsmen to usher in the 1926 season was composed of 18 freshmen on the Leviathan. Assistant Coaches A. L. Hobson '24 and C. S. Heard '25 were in the two bow seats, while at the coxswain's post was a moving picture camera. Moving picture men also crowded on the Newell float, filming all the crews that went out. The scene was completed by an aeroplane which hovered over the river for some time...
...books have enjoyed prestige that was largely borrowed. Bertrand Russell wrote a second book (What I Believe), as did Dr. Crookshank (Aesculapius) that stood on independent merits. The feminist controversy between Mrs. Russell and Captain Ludovici (Hypatia v. Lysistrata) was very readable, though biased on both sides. Gerald Heard's Narcissus?An Anatomy of Clothes qualified in its own right. But for the most part it seems as if the Duttons have gone unwisely far afield for writers and subjects, thinning out a superb vintage with hasty and insipid dilutions...