Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago his one remaining mainstay, solid old Pierce Butler, died (TIME, Nov. 27). In silence last week he heard Justice Owen Roberts read the majority decision reaffirming the civil liberties of the U. S. citizen, proclaim the right to pamphleteer without a police license.* The decision presented no new point of Constitutional doctrine, but to many a thoughtful U. S. citizen came as a solemn reminder, in anxious days, that beneath the stated rights of citizenship lies a rock-founded base guaranteeing their preservation...
...Calling CQ...calling CQ...CQ" can be heard nightly rolling down the dim staircase from the heights of Weld Hall. Not the police, not Admiral Byrd, but John McG. Cochrane '43, the only undergraduate who runs and operates his own transmitting station here at Harvard...
Browder entered the hall by a back entrance because 3,000 persons jammed the two front entrances. As he spoke the crowd outside raised a bedlam, shouting "Viva Hitler" and "Go back to Moscow." The Communist leader several times had to raise his voice to make himself heard inside...
...music, must notice in contemporary compositions the re-echoing not only of his spirit, but also of his treatment of the actual details of writing music. For example, the exciting sound of regular, freakily marked rhythmical beats varied by complex shifts of pulse and accent is a commonly heard effect which everyone associates immediately with the "Strawinsky influence...
When Margaret Farrand Thorp heard that 85,000,000 persons buy admissions every week to 17,000 movie houses in 9,000 U. S. towns & villages, she decided to find out why. She also wanted to know who the 85,000,000 are, what movies do to them and how they do it. Recently Author Thorp published her findings. Though she modestly says that any such book as hers (America at the Movies, Yale University Press; $2.75) must be "inadequate," "inaccurate," "written rapidly and superficially," to many a reader it may seem crisp, witty, just-a comprehensive roundup of candid...