Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...others is worthy of the great powers of the Glee Club; in it, the listener felt the pent-up energy, the restlessness, the subterranean mutterings, the whole background of the Russian Revolution; the Glee Club vivified this remarkable feeling to an extreme degree. No one who heard them will ever doubt their greatness everyone who heard that song will feel confident that of the elements necessary for the working out of Russia's fate, the power, at least, is there...
...another occasion these subchaser units commanded by Ensign A. D. Adams, U. S. N. R. F., "Picked up" the sound of a of sub off Land's End, successfully followed her and dropped a barrage of depth charges that seriously damaged her. By means of the listening devices they heard her unfortunate crew endeavoring to make repairs. Occasionally she would get her engines going, steam along a short distance, then stop, when continued hammering indicated further efforts at repairs. Additional depth charges were dropped, resulting in further damage to the doomed sub, which was now resting on the bottom...
...Heard separately, either of the symphonic poems played yesterday would please, perhaps thrill. En masse, as they were heard, they seemed a little too much. The ever beautiful D minor symphony began the program. It is a work of marvellous vitality, rich in harmonic structure and solidly if not exotically orchestrated. It is a piece in which great pains must be taken to avoid sentimentality; these Mr. Monteux took, at the expense, perhaps, of some of the beauty of the second movement. Four years ago, when the symphony was last heard in Boston, the tempo of this second movement...
...college undergraduate at times begins faintly to suspect that while a professor must be a professor in the classroom he may be a man outside. This secret is whispered about like a bit of scandal and heard sceptically by many. One of the few chances the professor gets to "come out" is the occasion of the University teas. Last year it is reported that one Freshman strayed into one of these parties and promptly fied when he discovered the "ogres of the class-room" assembled. Three graduate students from abroad attended and are said to have enjoyed themselves, while...
...Ireland Spenser, his fine sensibilities hurt both by the brutality of the people and by the oppression they suffered, groped vainly for a solution. Swift's bitter but powerful satire, O'Connell's virile challenge, Parnell's lyric appeal, Gladstone's unexpert but well-meaning enthusiasm-- all have been heard, been registered, and until now it might have been said, forgotten...