Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissioner of Internal Revenue in estimating income tax receipts, originally did not resent the figures quoted above by the Democrats. For each year he submitted a figure just $100,000,000 below the figures for his estimates quoted above. The Commissioner heard the Actuary's views, reconsidered his estimates and later added $100,000,000 to each year. Thus he presented the figures quoted above, which were then accepted. Result: For 1924 a decrease of $87,000,000 from the Actuary's figures, an increase of $100,000,000 from the Commissioner's original estimate; for 1925 a decrease...
...have heard that a few people take exception to the pamphlet recently issued by the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard, entitled "The Fine Arts in a Laboratory", which states that the case system is being used in teaching the Fine Arts here in this University. The objectors seem to feel that studying Fine Arts in this way is too mechanical a method and that it follows that we are studying matter instead of mind, technique instead of spirit. We here in the Department do not agree with this criticism and feel that it is based on lack of understanding...
Last week this all-American orchestra performed in Aeolian Hall, Manhattan. After Brahms' Second Symphony, which was taken on with spirit and vigor, there was heard for the first time B. Sherman Fowler's Moonlit Sky. Said the program...
...Moon, in its majesty, rises above the horizon, sailing ever upward in its splendor. A cloud passes over its surface, momentarily dimming its brilliance. It emerges, and the Lady of the Moon is heard making love to the Man in the Moon. He becomes irritated by her persistent wooing, and bursts forth in anger. An argument ensues, and the teasing voice of the Lady is heard with an occasional growl from the Man. Hysterical laughter, then reconciliation and all is again serene, as the splendor of the Moon shines forth in its calm majesty. The Lady in the Moon again...
...station, KDKA, at East Pittsburgh, Pa., is itself the most powerful in the world. It relays its programs simultaneously to its other stations at Hastings, Neb., Boston, and Liverpool, England, so that its waves cover the entire distance from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe. KDKA programs have been heard as far away as South Africa and are frequently received in England...