Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Alessandri heard the news he enthused not. Replied he, with due and necessary caution...
When music lovers, whatever their patriotic allegiance, heard that he was serving as a Captain in the Austrian Army on the Russian front, they bitterly and justly reviled the implacable machine which held a famed violinist as of no more, no less importance than a butcher's apprentice of like military rank. Kreisler, on the other hand, found a method of using his musical knowledge for the benefit of the implacable machine. Hearing Death's orchestration booming, sputtering, whistling, mewing, he faced the music, inclined his ear. "Accustomed to the sound of deadly missiles," said...
...selected a corps of 240 experts from every branch of industry to make a survey of the country's resources. Theodore N". Vail, dynamic Dutchman, then President of the A. T. & T., recommended W. S. Gifford to head this corps. No one outside the electrical industry had ever heard of Gifford, yet on Vail's word he was appointed. When the corps had done its work, he was chosen Director of the Advisory Committee of the Council of National Defense. Associated with him worked Daniel Willard, Bernard Baruch, Julius Rosenwald, Howard E. Coffin, Samuel Gompers, Charles M. Schwab...
...Rose for sponsoring three Finnish loans. After the speech, the presentation, conversation, turned to Nurmi. "That mans' legs,' said Minister Astrom, "have been worth $10,000,000 to Finland." He said that Nurmi's prowess had made men interested in Finland* who might never else have heard of the country, had thus enormously strengthened Finland's credit, brought subscriptions to her loans...
...Harkness Tower and the Quadrangle?" gasps a freshman fresh from Cactus Plant, Arizona. "That's something like a college!" The critic is assertive and confident in his judgment. He has often heard the Yard spoken of as a salad of monstrosities, and just as often has heard Harkness Tower praised as the finest college building in America...