Word: heard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single room above. Most suffer from malaria. Each tenant tills up to 15 hectares, pays roughly one-third of his income in rental. The average wheat crop is about four bushels per hectare (the U.S. average is 45 bushels). The soil is badly eroded. The tenants have never heard of insecticides; few know of any fertilizer other than manure, which they rarely use. They cannot afford plows; instead they hammer at the wretched soil with picks...
...thump of shells echoed sporadically in the cool room. "Curious how easily one gets used to this," Mrs. Hawkings said. "Just yesterday when we'd heard no explosions for half an hour I remarked to Billy, 'Isn't it quiet...
Make a Point. Aristide Pierre Maurin was born 71 years ago on a farm in the Languedoc region of southern France. When Pierre was 14, he went away to a school near Paris run by the Christian Brothers; five years later he was teaching there. He heard much talk then of the "proletariat" and of revolution. But to farm-boy Maurin such solutions did not seem to be solutions at all. Man, he felt, should stay close to the land...
...feel that it ceases to be a Visine. Such rude behavior as we observed is totally unbefitting anyone who claims academic and social intelligence. We contend that Professor Romans has not "said enough"; that his remarks and those of other faculty members like him should continue to be heard uninterrupted...
James Roe and other Queens Democrats preferred Dean Kiely. When they heard that Hovde was the "anticipated" selection, they went to New York Mayor William O'Dwyer and complained that the Board was ignoring the "wishes" of their borough's residents...