Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student of a sister University was recently heard to declare that he hated Harvard men. Being asked to state the reasons which led him to hold this opinion, he said that they dressed too confounded well: and with this frank confession of jealousy the conversation came...
...exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil Car." U. S. women wrote lengthy, passionate letters.* Last week, the German automobile industry heard alarming reports. Persistent were the rumors that the Opel family would sell control of" "General Motors of Germany" to General Motors of the U. S. Angry nationalists, worried competitors, planned an automobile trust to battle U. S. production methods. Daimler-Benz began to dicker with the Belgian Minerva...
Geheimrat von Opel issued vigorous denials. But Berlin newsgatherers heard and published that the price paid by G. M. for Opel would...
...children, but the grown people. The older people who are listening in to my programs are a charming and delightful offshoot which I did not contemplate. Their letters show that the mothers and grandmothers, and in some cases the fathers and grandfathers listened in at home while their children heard the concert at school. Altogether it looks as though this might grow into a gigantic awakening on the part of the Nation to music...
...which man ascends the Mount of Vision. Confucius, Ancient Teacher, Perfect Sage, "has river eyes and a dragon fore head ... his arms are long, his back is like a tortoise . . . when he speaks he praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible." He edited the ancient classics, compiled the precepts of propriety, attempted to uplift and order civilization. As magistrate, he justified Plato's ideal of government by philosophers - until political jealousy put him out of office. Bitterly disappointed, he died...