Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of the U. S. resident at Chefoo, not far away on the Shantung Coast heard firing, and presently four auto trucks piled with Nationalist wounded dashed into the city. No correspondent dared venture out into the battle area, and when Nationalist officials in Chefoo announced a "sweeping victory" they were gravely suspected of exaggeration. From Manila the U. S. cruiser Trenton set out for Chefoo, where three Japanese destroyers and one British gunboat already...
...China, one Han Yu-ming, a stone cutter, found a small sigil in the foothills of the Taihang mountains. It evidently had belonged to a priest long since dead, for lo! as Han stooped to pick it up, a vision came to him. He heard a voice like the Voice of Thunder. The Voice told Han that the sigil would cure diseases, that soon a leader would come...
...Sydney Stadium, Australia. Norman Gillespie outpointed Jack Roberts during the first seven rounds of their prizefight last week. In Round 8, a bell rang. Gillespie lowered his fists. He had heard the gong, he thought. But it was only a ringside telephone. The next thing Gillespie heard was the trickle of cold water. Roberts had knocked...
Immediately, ayes and nays were heard throughout the land. Said Walter Eckersall, former great quarterback: "One of the worst things ever done to the game." Said Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas University athletic director: "It is a good rule." The pros listed among their number Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears (Minnesota), Ossie Solem (Drake), Tad Jones (Yale), Cleo O'Donnell (Holy Cross), Ira Rodgers (West Virginia), Bob Zuppke (Illinois). The cons included Amos Alonzo Stagg (Chicago), Dick Hanley (Northwestern), Glenn Thistlethwaite (Wisconsin), Dr. Frank W. Cavanaugh (Fordham...
...York Times, is perhaps the most authentic extra-official treatment yet accorded to the subject. Confining himself to easy interpretation of the scheme in phrases which have already become familiar by reiteration, the writer nevertheless strikes the same note of optimism for its future that has been heard in all official pronouncements on the question...