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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newspapers consulted, only 13 refused Harvard permission to copy their publications. Newspapers from Germany and England, France and Italy, Russia, China, and Japan are alike being recorded. No objection has been heard from the organs of totalitarian states. Films of "La Vanguardia" of Barcelona are still being received at Widener...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Library Uses New Microfilm Process for Showing Manuscripts and Old Papers-Equipment Latest of Its Kind | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

...empire's $583,000,000 in utility properties would be transferred to a liquidating trust. After a projected reorganization, I. P. & P. will still have assets of $250,000,000, will still be the world's biggest paper company-as it was before it ever heard of Archibald Graustein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Major Operation | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...January 1930, a swindler named Clarence Charles Hatry stood at the bar of London's Old Bailey, heard himself convicted of "one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country." The collapse of Promoter Hatry's $10,000,000 forged bond bubble in September 1929 had sapped confidence in The City, helped to precipitate the U. S. stockmarket crash, and hastened worldwide Depression. Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in prison, two -of them at hard labor. Last week, having served nine years of his sentence and having impressed Home Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Echoes from the Past | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...yard, and dropped the baby from the second-story window. In the smoke and darkness they thought she was tossing a bundle of clothes, let it fall, dragged it 20 feet from the house, left it in the snow. Half an hour later a fireman heard the baby cry, picked it up unharmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...recordings will be played weekly at regular sessions at which different bands will be heard playing the name compositions. The recitals will be organized into an unofficial course which under the sponsorship of the Music Department may be added to the regular curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing Music Is Recent Acquisition of Theatre Collection in Widener Library | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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