Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officer of the University once remarked that the Harvard Advocate was published regularly, but that he had never heard of anybody who read it. At a time when the contributions were in large measure only acceptable themes prepared for college courses, there might have been good reason for the remark. But today anyone who does not unreasonably demand of undergraduates the perfection of established writers, ought to read the magazine with genuine relish...
...Annapolis, midshipmen cheered loudly into an amplifying telephone transmitter. The Naval Academy football eleven, playing Penn State at State College, Pa., heard the loud cheers clearly issuing from a broadcaster on the sidelines...
...lady with a musical ear and money in her purse passed the cobbler's shop one day and heard Antonio's voice. She stopped. It was a very good voice. She sought out the youth and told him he must become great. She interested other well placed folk in her find. Funds were raised to enable Antonio to study in Italy. A fortnight ago he sailed to enroll in the Conservatory at Milan...
Concert-goers heard the other evening what was to most of them a new instrument. It was the a cappella chorus?group singing unaccompanied. Specifically, it was the Sistine Choir (TIME, Oct. 22), in its Manhattan début. One does not think of voices without accompaniment as an instrument of rich and dramatic musical utterance. The church choir, smug, monotonous, leaves an abiding impression on the American ear. Even the best of oratorio choruses do not escape the stilted, churchy dullness. A fine operatic chorus, like that of the Metropolitan Opera Company, is not an independent unity; it works essentially...
...rules, and might the best man win. He saw his first game two years ago and was so delighted that he has been a constant follower of the sport ever since. The first big Stadium encounter he witnessed was the Princeton contest last year. After the game he was heard to remark that he wished he had found out about that sort of thing sooner...