Word: heard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Right now the Japanese have their own peculiar understanding. One local group wanted to put police at the adult school door to keep out Communists, "as Communists would disturb free discussion." In Kyoto's Kitano Junior High, Correspondent Welles heard the following discussion among adults...
...roared again when Berman lugged a big unwieldy radio set into the ring. When he turned it on, the audience heard some barking dogs. "That," said Berman, "is the 'Voice of America.' Now for the BBC." This time the radio emitted the sound of grunting pigs. Then Berman reached into the set and pulled out a squealing young pig. "Churchill's heir," he cried...
...Silken Curtain. Over the "Voice," he said, he had heard that a fascist war criminal was being jailed by the U.S. "I am the kind of man," explained Berman, "who believes everything that comes from abroad." The suave Kio stood ready to show how unwise that was. Several workmen rolled a big cage into the ring. Inside was Adolf Hitler. Mumbling his magic formula, Kio lowered what he explained was "not an iron, but a silken curtain." When the curtain rose once more, the workers had been moved inside the cage, and outside, mocking them, stood Hitler. On hand...
...ophthalmologists examined patients who had regained their sight through the Eye-Bank, heard reports on new experimental work, discussed techniques, looked at movies of corneal grafting made in the U.S., Spain and France. An unusual suggestion for the future of corneal grafting was made by Dr. Mauno Vannas, on leave from Finland's University of Helsinki. If enough eyes are available, he said, it might be possible to correct such ordinary defects in vision as near-and farsightedness by grafting new corneas. The operation might, for instance, make use of contact lenses unnecessary. But eyes are still scarce. Only...
Stan took the tip. The first publisher who heard Riders told him it sounded too much like a "funeral dirge or a college hymn." (Actually, its opening sounded more like the first few steps of When Johnny Comes Marching Home.) He kept plugging, finally recorded Riders and some of his others at his own expense. Then Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3, 1948) sandaled into the act. He heard Riders and liked it. The song had hair on its chest, and would be hard to croon with mush in the mouth. Ahbez took the music to Burl Ives...