Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university, scholarship is not to be considered as a purely personal attainment, but as a benefit to society. It may be embedded in the printed word, and read; or in lectures and personal conferences, and heard. Ordinarily scholarship will assume both forms, and they are of equal dignity...
...DeMille proportions would appeal only to a limited class of persons, and thus actually would not be a "class" dance--in the usual sense--at all. Miscellaneous objections to the unwieldiness of the affair, the absence of spirit except of the "colossal" sort, the danger of unpleasant notoriety, are heard mainly from those basically opposed to the idea as a whole...
...Dorothy Barber, young Kansas City, Mo. matron who could not get enough food even though she ate 20 times a day (TIME, March 13), announced that she was not unduly hungry any more, had settled down to only three meals a day. "God has heard my prayers," cried she. "I really believe He has cured...
...Symphony was one of the Federal Music Project's ugly ducklings. For a year it bettelhtooped almost unnoticed. In the summer of 1936, the Music Project's pompous national director, Nikolai Sokoloff, went to Chicago to rehearse it for a concert under his own baton. When he heard it play he was afraid to be seen in public with it. Hastily recommending a new conductor and a shakeup in personnel, Director Sokoloff left town...
Biggest gift was $586,000 to Boston University to help build a new business-school building. Last week Josiah Hayden repaired to B. U., sat himself in a chair, beamed as he heard money make silky talk. Up to speak at founders' day exercises rose B. U.'s President Daniel L. Marsh. Mr. Marsh delivered a 40-minute effusion on "one of the most successful, dynamic and achieving lives that America has yet produced-the life of Charles Hayden...