Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary, and received one ha'penny royalty for each performance, until he was killed during the War while serving as a Lieutenant. The second son, Michael, said to have supplied the inspiration of Mary Rose, was drowned five years ago while an undergraduate at Oxford. When Sir James heard this news his grief was great. He sat in a darkened room, refusing to see anyone...
...Union City, N. J., a sleek stranger, having eaten and paid for a large meal in the restaurant of one John Thanos, asked courteously if he might use the telephone. Mr. Thanos heard him give a woman's name. It was evidently a long distance call, but Mr. Thanos, not wishing to appear discourteous, did not listen to the conversation. The stranger talked for 41 minutes. Courteous Thanos polished the glasses out of earshot...
When people heard that "Oh, Dear," slim-legged courser of the Prince of Wales, had died of heart failure while making a jump (see COMMONWEALTH), they realized with vicarious contrition that a horse has a heart that may burst. "Oh, Dear" undoubtedly had a weak heart, although heart disease is fairly uncommon among horses. Their circulatory system is quite comparable to that of humans. Thus the horse has a heart with four chambers (two ventricles and two auricles) arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, veins and the appropriate valves. The blood is normally so pure that biological chemists use it in preparing...
When an Army engineer prophesied last fall (TIME, Oct. 26) that some fine day the shattering clangor of pneumatic rivet-hammers would no longer be heard upon the metallic skeletons of city buildings, having been replaced by electric welding devices, the urban public pricked its abused ears and hotel managers sighed their hopes...
Friday. It was raining when I woke up. Heard that Jones W. ("Messy") Mesereau (President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association) is fussing because I am writing for French newspapers. He thinks it affects my amateur standing, but I don't think he interprets the player-writer rule correctly. . . Spent the morning writing an article supposed to be an analysis of Suzanne Lenglen's style. What these editors like is a few measured generalities. . . . Rain cleared in the afternoon. Tea at the Casino...