Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese workers and to enforce a boycott of the British and Japanese (TIME, June 8, 15). Demonstrations were held. Schools and shops were closed. Dead students were carried in parades with the inscription: "Killed by the English in Shanghai.* " Cries of "Kill the British!" "Kill the Japanese!" were heard frequently. Part of the native press supported the students and the Government's policy favored them. Subscription lists were opened and bankers promised aid. After the killings at Hankow (see below), the students demanded that the Government break off diplomatic relations with Britain and oust them by force from their...
Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) also gave Ambassador Matsudaira an LL.D., heard him speak, heard also Cyrus Woods, onetime (March, 1923-June, 1924) U. S. Ambassador to Japan...
...Haverford College (Haverford, Pa.), Charles C. Sellers, senior, was awarded his diploma in absentia. Sellers was, however, present at the exercises, completely disguised as a girl. He heard himself lauded, awarded three prizes, heard the class poem written by him read by another. Explained his mother, Mrs. Sellers: "Charles is exceedingly shy. Also, he has a sense of humor...
Echoes were heard in the U. S. Said Miss Flora J. Cooke, mistress of the Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) : ". . . How can he [a boy] have sympathetic understanding of his wife and daughters if he has known only men in the course of his schooling? . . . I don't for one minute mean that we should have all women teachers . . . the ideal arrangement is to have both...
...other day, I heard, to my great sorrow, that the lovely Church of Ste. Anne de Beaupré outside of Quebec, Canada, was burned last year. Having always cherished a secret, and not altogether unfounded, desire to visit this church, I would like to know if you can give me (but of course you can) any details regarding the catastrophy and also any information you may know concerning the plans for the rebuilding of this delightful church...