Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen heard one of President Conant's "off the record" speeches for the first time since the war last night when the Class of 1952 filled the Union dining hall for a 30-minute talk by the President, followed by an informal question period...
...Confederacy's brave armless and legless old men stirred young Douglas; he decided: "If someone doesn't write the story of these men, it will be lost forever, and I'm go'n' to do it." Being Virginia born, Douglas Freeman had heard endless talk of the war; he had seen Generals Longstreet and Fitzhugh Lee in the flesh. The headmaster of McGuire's University School used to scold the boys for tardiness by reminding them that the battle of Gettysburg was lost because General Longstreet stopped to give his corps breakfast...
What Was That? Near St. Charles, Ill., while Farmer Maurice Regole's silo exploded and collapsed the barn against the feed shed, which in turn knocked the windmill over the implement shed, Farmer Regole peacefully slept on, reported to neighbors next day that he had heard "a slight noise...
...fairly weighty, when matters came to the voting stage, Representatives were leary about going on record against a body that was out-theoretically, at least--to expose sin. And the voting public, as Dr. Gallup faithfully reported, was decidedly pro-Dies. Three out of every four had even heard of him, which was over-whelming evidence of the instinct for publicity he was to develop even further in his next five years on the roost...
...meeting also heard a variety of letters objecting to adoption of the Salton-stall Committee's report...