Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the dismissed professors were heard, Dr. Sprowls first. He told how he had ordered The Mind in Making for his classes, how it had arrived in the University Book Store, how one of his superiors returned the books to the publisher, how Dr. Sprowls had protested to President Morgan. According to Dr. Sprowls the President had replied: " I believe in evolution more than you do, Dr. Sprowls, but it is necessary to soft pedal evolution because Tennessee is as likely to have a 'monkey' legislature as Kentucky." Thereupon Dr. Sprowls was dismissed. He told the trustees that...
...trustees, having heard the other unfortunate professors, voted to sustain their discharge. Two dissenting votes were cast-one by Mr. Smith, one by Governor Peay...
Thomas Nelson Page was Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to the Court of Savoy. Of Thomas Nelson Page : a Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman by Rosewell Page, Mr. Mencken writes: " Let the Scribners take the gold-mounted custard pie for printing the worst biography every heard...
...from 3% to 4%, partly as an act of pressure on France. The Air Force appropriation presented to the Commons, providing for an additional 34 squadrons, was a measure to offset French prestige by strengthening that of Great Britain. Finally, rumors of British action on the French debt were heard at Paris about the same time that the French began to realize that they were virtually isolated in Europe. Such is the bare outline of a clever diplomatic gambol...
...city, was given a dinner in honor of Marshal Pilsudski, first ex-President of the Republic. The dinner commenced auspiciously. Everyone behaved in a gentlemanly manner. Later, the flowing cup ran over. With it effervesced the courage of the assembled guests. From rollicking laughter and sounds of "Have you heard this one?" the attention of the party was directed to serious, biting and calumnious speeches. It was Marshal Pilsudski's turn to speak. He said many unpleasant things about his critics. Some he called "crooks." Then with one mighty roar: "The insults that have been heaped upon me call...