Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard from the lips of Mr. Arthur M. Samuel, Secretary for the Overseas Trade Department, that the British Government has felt compelled to decline an invitation to exhibit at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition, on the grounds of imperative national economy...
Echoes of the so-called "typewriter scandal," precipitated when King George discovered that most of the typewriters used by the British Government are of U. S. manufacture (TIME, March 1), continued to be heard last week. It was revealed that the Prince of Wales possesses six U. S.-made "portables"; and yet both he and the Duke of York felt called upon to speak publicly in praise of British-made machines...
...slip of paper from the dean's office fluttered down upon them. Though they proclaimed that the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc. (Freeman Hapgood, general secretary), had welcomed them to membership, Dean Charles Hoeing did not so much as signify that he had ever heard of them or of Atheist Hapgood. The New York Times: "They will quickly bore each other to distraction...
Last week they had heard their new President (quiet, deft Walter Sherman Gifford) announce with pleasure that 57,000 employes* (with an average of 10 shares each) would share with the 362,179 shareholders of the company in the $107,405,046 net profits of 1925. This amounts to $11.79 a share on the $911,181,400 average stock outstanding, against the $11.31 on the $805,145,900 of 1924. The company's business has been prospering steadily. Gross income in 1925 was $180,458,912 against $154,082,836 the previous year. Dividends at 9% just declared total...
...institution of telephone usage was a difficult, slow affair. Alexander Graham Bell had been jiggling with a contraption he was determined he would make carry the human voice when his assistant Thomas A. Watson suddenly, clearly heard: "Mr. Watson, please come here. I want you." To this phrase there was no dignity as that attached to "What God hath wrought!" the first intelligible phrase carried over Samuel F. B. Morse's first telegraph. But the two young men were so jubilant in their cheap Boston lodging house that their landlady threatened to oust them. For money to install...