Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience, which was made up largely of faculty members and their wives, heard Charles Munch conducting the orchestra for the first time in this area. When the concert was over the listeners rose to give the conductor a standing ovation, something almost unheard of for Harvard...
...that time the stands were rabid, and in 22 years of watching Harvard football, I've never heard so (sic) violent spectator reaction,' he said...
...audience of one girl and about 35 men heard comparisons drawn between sex operations in "lower plants" and those in "higher animals." Weston discussed the latency of the opposite sex present in each person...
...past three years, Manhattan concert-and operagoers have heard plenty of English Composer Benjamin Britten's music (Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia). This week, a Town Hall audience turned out to hear some Britten music played by the composer himself. As accompanist for English Tenor Peter Pears, who created the leading roles in all of Britten's major operas, "Benjy" proved himself as astute on the platform at the piano as he is in his parlor with a pen. When the nicely varied and nicely performed program of original Brittens, Britten-arranged Purcell and English folk songs...
...Copy. When Commodore Matthew Perry and his "black boats" opened up Japan to the Western world in 1854, Dr. Hepburn heard a special call for his services which he could not refuse. The Presbyterians wanted to send a missionary, but the Japanese forbade conversion to Christianity on pain of death. A medical missionary was the answer; Dr.Hepburn set sail with his wife in 1859, to become one of the first Protestant missionaries to Japan...