Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such, exactly, was the case; but one must not gain the mistaken impression that, when the President heard the Frenchman's eloquence, he was instantaneously moved to speak what was on his mind, clearly, if with eloquence. Far other was the case...
With the prospect of an early gen eral election, some speculation has been heard on the probable planks on which the Liberals will carry on their campaign. Three main issues have been named: 1) Tariff Re form, 2) Senate Reform, 3) Railway Freight Rates...
There will always be critics whose only textbook is the scoreboard. There will always be people with a what's-the-matter-with-this-or-that complex. There will always be people with an inordinate desire to make themselves heard and usually their noise is inversely proportional to their knowledge. Harvard football has been unable to escape from this sort of interest, but the present committee will very properly ignore...
Thus opens the newest chapter in the tempestuous life of Fan S. Noli '12, Albanian Harvard graduate, bishop-ex-Premier. When last heard of, Noli was disappearing into Italy, taking with him a loyal coterie of cabinet officers and followers, and "a lot of money". Now he turns up in the capital of Austria, having discarded the role of politician for that of author. What matter if the door of his native country is barred to him? For Fan Noli it means but an opportunity to continue his literary work, interrupted by the demands of his unstable position as head...
...said, leaning back in his swivel chair. "Thirty odd years ago, when I was a young chap, a rather prominent elderly gentleman of my acquaintance said that the greatest man he ever met was Robert E. Lee. That struck me, you know, for I had never heard of him before, and yet I knew that friend of mine had met Bismarck, Von Moltke, Gladstone and a dozen other great men. Robert E. Lee must have been a remarkable character to have impressed my friend so profoundly...