Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diego in the Pacific last week the V4, largest U. S. submarine, "sank" in 86 feet of water, carrying down a crew of 87 officers & men. Thirty-nine minutes later they heard the welcome thump of a diver's 20-lb. shoes on her deck. Above was the rescue vessel Ortolan, from which air lines were attached to the VJs salvage plugs. Fresh air was first pumped into the crew compartments, then into the ballast tanks, from which the water was blown. Twenty-three minutes later the Pacific's blue surface churned with foam...
...Edward Everett (Dolly) Gann, Second Lady of the Land, last week set-at rest the misgivings of temperate Christian women. Mrs. Ludie D. Pickett, president of the Kentucky W. C. T. U., having heard that Mrs. Gann dined last month at the British Embassy, wrote and asked: "Is the honor and dignity of your country as dear to you as your own status in the social life of Washington? Did you for the honor and dignity of your country decline liquor at Sir Esme Howard's dinner...
Youth v. Age. Baseballers grow old quickly and are heard of no more. Youth is a tremendous asset. Example-The Young Athletics, constantly improving, have caught up with and passed the Old Yankees, once undoubtedly one of the most efficient clubs ever put together. And the Young Giants are potential champions, restrained only by their poor pitching. Individual instances are Young Melvin Ott (not yet 21) of the "Giants" and Young Jimmy Foxx (just past 21) of the "Athletics." Player Ott has made 26 home-runs, is hitting around .324, fields with speed and skill. He is an outfielder, gifted...
...Warner). This story is taken from a musical comedy popular several years ago -something about a football player who had gone into the bond business, and his boss, and the boss's wife, and his secretary. There were good tunes in it; you heard them wherever you went to dance that summer. The tunes are gone from this version, also the chorus with big hats and little parasols, but the musical comedy atmosphere is left, inconsequential and agreeable. Before the football player has married the secretary and escaped the trap the boss was laying for him, you have stopped...
When the Portland convention heard this charge there was indignant clamor. Dr. Thomas Clark Chalmers of Manhattan declared: "In this election at Washington, it was I, always known as a wet, who was Dr. Morgan's manager...