Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Economy has played a large part in Colonel Sherrill's efficiency scheme; he has learned how to squeeze the eagle until it can be heard squealing down at the Treasury...
...know you weren't speaking to me, but I heard it and so did the Court. I object to that remark and I want it put in the record. This cross-examination may seem tedious to you, but I have my duty to perform and I am going to perform...
...waterfall, roared in his ears; he heard a thudding step behind him; a thread brushed his chest- and someone was wrapping him in a blanket, thumping him on the back, telling him he had made it, had beaten Loucks by a yard after six miles. Third-100 yards behind-struggled Arthur Hillman of Maine, and behind him the gasping, wavering, dogged pack...
...radical a proposal it seems safe to deduce two general truths: first, that the average college student in America is dissatisfied with lectures, such as he knows them; and second, that the same average student has a strong prepossession in favor of the tutorial system, as he has heard of it by report from the few colleges in which it has actually been tried. It may seem strange and incongruous, that students of Harvard, where the tutorial system has been tried with such great success, should hesitate and finally reject the proposal to extend that system to the exclusion...
Discussion of the CRIMSON'S Football Program has already gone far enough to establish at least one fact beyond all further question. Major Cavanaugh in his speech before the Debating Union asserted with great gusto and assurance that he had heard of no overemphasis of football at New Haven, that no hint of it had come from Princeton, and that any one who mentioned such a thing at Hanover would be shot at dawn. But it seems that the Major was a bit premature...