Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience of 1000 fanned themselves in 95.3 degree heat, the highest in history for June 21, and heard Class Orator J. Philip Bahn ask for more scholarships to insure the future of "expanded opportunity" in education...
...seniors, also heard Antonio G. Haos, Ivy Orator, read a playlet "showing what life at Harvard must be like in the composite American imagination...
...signed these replies "Yours very sincerely, Sherlock Holmes" was Samuel William Gibson Morton, a top company official. An old Holmes fan himself, Morton sent advice to farmers in Minnesota who were troubled by cattle thieves, to old ladies in Massachusetts who heard strange noises at night, and several times actually helped solve cases from clues supplied in the letters...
...Young Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...
Security. Last January Squeaky Burwell heard that CAB was ready to wash him out. It vetoed his request for permanent travel routes. But all CAB decisions on overseas certificates are subject to a White House O.K. Burwell turned himself into a one-man lobby in Washington. A loyal Democrat who had raised money for Harry Truman in the 1948 campaign, he buttonholed 24 Senators, nine Representatives and 51 Administration officials. Then he had a chat with Harry Truman, told him: "If a man's in a hurry he takes an ordinary airline; if he wants to kill two weeks...