Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned back to court early this week, the convicted men heard their fate: Mayor Hayes (who has not yet resigned) and Friend Leary, ten to 15 years in jail; for Aide Kelly, seven to twelve years...
...Imperial Airways' Pilot A. B. H. Youell took his nine passengers over the French border during a routine Zurich-London flight last week he heard a clap of thunder. Looking overboard he saw a puff of black smoke. Then five more claps and five more puffs followed in quick succession. Pilot Youell knew antiaircraft fire when he saw it. He checked his position: near Strasbourg, France. Pouring on the coal to 10,000 feet, swerving from his course, he radioed Strasbourg airfield to find out if war had begun. "Very sorry," came the answer. "You were near the Maginot...
...Piccadilly Circus one day last week newsboys were heard crying: "Step right up and get it-TIME, the banned book!" Many Londoners stepped up, because, only a fortnight before, much had been made of the banning of TIME in England...
Asked how she came by her poise and cultivated musical taste (her only previous public appearances had been as a soloist with the Negro Hampton Institute Choir), Soprano Maynor modestly gave all the credit to her teachers. When she had heard the last concert of the Festival, Dorothy Maynor thanked her hostess for a nice time, took the next train for Manhattan, where she lives with her mother (a Methodist minister's widow) in a small upper-West Side apartment. When she got home she started practicing for her first public recital, at Town Hall in November. Said...
...what it was buying, demanded quality meats. Today the Government grades not more than 9% of U. S. slaughtered beef. Producers want it all graded. Month ago new Government grading standards became effective. Last week the American Institute of Cooperation (booster of farmers' cooperative associations) met in Chicago, heard about the new rules from an expert: Sleeter Bull, Associate Professor of Meats, University of Illinois...