Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have heard, the Federal Government within the past two years has loaned $2,563,000 and given $2,097,000 to the Imperial Irrigation District of California for construction of a power system that duplicates entirely the system of our privately-owned power utility in the same area-the Imperial Valley, largest irrigated area in the world...
France. The French acted as if they believed all they heard about Italian and German mobilization and more too. In Tunisia some troops were held in barracks, while others moved up to the fortified line near the Libyan border. French submarines patrolled the Tunisian Coast. The French Mediterranean fleet of 44 warships moved suddenly into the naval base at Bizerte, at the entrance to the narrowest part of the Mediterranean opposite Sicily. Carrying out "spring exercises" not far away were 92 men-of-war of the British Home and Mediterranean Fleets...
...resettlement plan hinges upon the finding of homes abroad for the Jews. Last week the Committee heard the most encouraging news since its creation: 1) President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth offered to take 1,000 refugees annually, plus an unstated number of doctors, engineers and technicians; 2) a delegate of the Dominican Republic announced that his Government could admit 100,000 refugees, provided they had funds; 3) Australia offered to admit 15,000; 4) Paraguay a "limited number," while The Netherlands and British Governments announced investigations examining resettlement possibilities in their colonies...
Shortly after one o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Shreck heard her 36-year-old husband's voice on 3,105 kilocycles, where many a pilot's anxious wife listens while he is aloft. He was on instruments at 15,000 feet, bogging down with a heavy load of ice, blown far east of Spokane by a terrific wind. The rest was silence. Last week, Pilot Shreck, still bundled in his water-soaked flying suit, stumbled into a farmhouse 50 miles east of Spokane. He had crashed on a 5,000-foot wooded ridge, had walked, crawled...
...superb relay quartets and a top-notch weight combination that the Crimson's hopes are pinned. George Downing, who won this event last year, seems sure to win the shot, and Nat Heard should have an excellent chance to break into the point column. In the hammer Ithacan McKeever is favored to out-twirl Bill Shallow, but not by much...