Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word that shocked Critic Stevens was a Latin-derived synonym for stage-hackneyed Sex-a synonym seldom heard outside biology. TIME approved the word's scientific quality and doubts that the most prurient-minded of Victorian butlers would have suspected what was meant...
Chuckles were heard in tens of thousands of British homes when the famed London weekly Sketch arrived and was ruffled over to a peculiarly English full page cartoon in decorous pastel colors...
Fortunately the President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek, is quick. Not five minutes after he received a frantic phone call from Dr. Wang, there was heard in the streets of Nanking the piercing siren of the presidential Packard (TIME...
...They heard a symphony which has for its scope the story of the development of America, the definition of its powers. "O America, because you build for mankind, I build for you." Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first movement, under the head "1620," come sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come...
Miss Nichols also testified that she had never read Shakespeare, but that she had heard of the character of Shylock. The defense was attempting to show that the theme of Abie's Irish Rose was as old as Shakespeare...