Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most awesome to the Lowell denizens, however, were the complaints heard in Adams. "They complained," said one Lowellian. "You know," said another, "those guys looked at the fresh fruit salad, and they looked at the oyster stew, and one of them said to me, 'Oh no, not again...
...meeting yesterday, the 100-year-old Glee Club heard G. Wallace Woodworth '24, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, announce his resignation, because, he said, "a quarter of a century is enough." He joined the HGC as assistant accompanist in 1921, and was named assistant conductor in 1925, as well as conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society. In 1933, upon the resignation of Archibald "Doc" Davison, he was named conductor of the HGC. In the summer of 1956, Woodworth led the Club on a triumphant concert tour of Europe, its first visit there since...
...held ports and airfields were repeatedly bombed and strafed, he cried that "adventurers from Formosa and even from the United States" were responsible (President Eisenhower's answer: "Our policy is one of careful neutrality and proper deportment . . . Now, on the other hand, every rebellion that I have ever heard of has its soldiers of fortune."). Advising the U.S. "not to play with fire," Sukarno added: "If the outside world is thinking in terms of making Indonesia into a second Korea or a second Viet Nam, there will be World...
...Army's satellite Explorer I, which carries two meteorite detectors. One of them, a microphone that picks up the slight vibrations in the satellite's shell that are caused by the smallest dust particles, registered only seven hits during the 120 minutes that the transmitter could be heard. The other detector, a set of delicate coils designed to be damaged electrically by meteorites at least 10 microns (1/2500 in.) in diameter, showed no more than one hit (possibly none) in 32 days. The satellite was not damaged, and Manring and Dubin conclude that only long exposure to this...
...that satellites, the first crude spaceships, are actually on orbit, spacemen are being asked to deliver real transportation, and a voyage even to the nearby moon looks disturbingly hard. The Astronautics Symposium sponsored in Denver last week by the Air Force and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences heard more about the staggering difficulties of space flight than about its rosy prospects...