Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your reporter is evidently not a close student of ornithology. Whoever heard of a flock of 30 hawks over a cornfield? Does the reporter think that the solitary, carnivorous hawk travels in flocks and feeds on corn? Did he not have crows in mind instead of hawks? W. C. COTHRAN Greenville...
...chummily with Farmer Earl Putnam, who once paid him $30 a month to run a cultivator, do chores; he ate Mrs. Putnam's noonday "dinner" of home-cured ham, eggs, new potatoes, corn from the patch, fresh cherry pie. He played golf, suppressing his scores. Less pleasurably, he heard that FBI's John Edgar Hoover had jailed Lepke Buchalter...
Last fortnight, however, the Hobby Lobby got NBC into the law courts. It all stemmed from the preparations for the July 19 program. Someone at Young & Rubicam's, the ad agency producing the show, had heard about a printing executive in Philadelphia, name of Klein, whose hobby was hypnotism. Arrangements were made immediately: Hypnotist Howard Klein was going to hypnotize someone right in the studio. It seemed like a swell idea at the time. Mr. Klein, a great hand at house parties, was delighted. He sent little printed cards to a lot of his friends, telling them...
...W2XE, to go. Most venerable of the call letters already changed were those of Westinghouse's W8XK, the short-wave partner of Pittsburgh's KDKA. As 8XK, 8XS, then W8XK, this station has been broadcasting since 1921, is perhaps most noted for one of the least-heard radio features in the world-regular Far North news and general program broadcasts in English, French, Icelandic, Danish and Eskimo. The station was originally (as was KDKA) a gimmick in the garage of Westinghouse's Dr. Frank Conrad. The place had so much reverberation that Dr. Conrad pitched a tent...
When at last William agreed to a separation, Caroline quickly died. "For years afterwards the mere mention of her name brought tears to his eyes. . . . 'Shall we meet?' he would be heard murmuring to himself, 'Shall we meet in another world?' " To the future Prime Minister, Caroline's death seemed like the end of the world...