Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought seriously of a rearmament program last year when Congress ordered the Navy Department to report on the need for new naval bases. Early this month when Congress got that report, everyone had heard plenty about rearmament. And last week one item on that program raised a major question of policy...
...shot at), as the city lived what might well be its last hours under the Spanish Republic. When a Loyalist squadron gave fight to Rebel attackers in a midday raid, the people ran out in the streets and cheered wildly. The rumble of Rebel artillery was distinctly heard. Until martial law was declared movies were still crowded, the opera was beginning another series. Evacuation of the civilian population northward began, the first to be transferred being children and prisoners. Some of the more valuable Government records were moved to Gerona, a city of 22,000 inhabitants 55 miles north...
Japan's rubber-stamp Diet last week heard its new Premier, Fascist-minded Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, make some unorthodox admissions: 1) Chinese resistance was formidable; 2) in conquered territory Japanese troops controlled only cities and communications lines; 3) the Japanese Army will have to remain in China for a long time to come...
Their mixed audience of high and low brows heard the performance with mixed emotions, frowned at Bartók's obscure modernisms, guffawed at Goodman's cackling clarinet, but applauded like fans at a cockfight. Soberer pundits grumbled that Bartók's score was a tricky jumble of Stravinskian boisterousness, sniffed that they preferred Szigeti's superb performances of Beethoven's A Minor Sonata and Bach's unaccompanied Chaconne...
...more than a month Wall Street and Washington have heard that roly-poly Howard Hopson, kingpin of $1,038,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric Co., was so ill he was under an oxygen tent. Since Mr. Hopson has often been "ill" when the Government wanted him for hearings and investigations of his fabulous operations, many a cynic wondered whether the utility magnate's latest indisposition was a portent of further trouble...