Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's Aircraft Inquiry Board (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.), headed by Dwight W. Morrow, concluded its busy hearings last week. The list of men it heard was very long, the more important including: Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee; Orville Wright; Admiral S. S. Robison, commanding the U. S. Fleet; Brigadier General Hugh A. Drum, Assistant Chief of Staff; Postmaster General New; General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the Army Air Service; Rear Admiral William S. Sims, retired; Rear Admiral Robert E. Coontz; Commander Richard E. Byrd just returned from the far north with MacMillan; Grover...
...Having heard this testimony, the Board virtually concluded its hearings, and started to go over the 675,000 words of testimony taken in preparation for its report in November...
...UNDERSTAND?Montague Glass ?Doubleday, Page ($2.00). Since Abie's Irish Rose stole his long-rumbling thunder, not much has been seen or heard of the author of Potash and Perlmutter. Somehow, the Jews presented in Y'Understand (eight short stories) seem modernized, less Semitic than their forerunners. Perhaps that is mere geography: "Blood Is Redder Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles...
Students interested in the game, and wishing to show cause why such action should not be taken, will be heard at a special meeting of the Committee to be held at the Hemenway Gymnasium, on Monday, December 1, at 7.30 o'clock...
...have often been told by football friends that they did not even hear the cheering during a game much less care whether there was any or not. Cheering is a stimulant for the cheerers. The fact that they once also carried flasks never, so far as I have heard, led any Bacchic enthusiast to demand the administration of alcoholic refreshment to the players between halves. But as--so I am told--it was formerly considered undesirable for too many of the spectators to become too exalted in one respect, so we have also been accustomed to put some check...