Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...several sizes too large. Immediately before him was a group of delaying motions filed by the Faubus legal battery: that Judge Davies disqualify himself on the ground of personal bias, that service of subpoenas against National Guard officers be quashed, that the case be dismissed because it should be heard by a three-judge court...
They included Little Rock's Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, School Superintendent Blossom and Police Chief Marvin Potts. All testified that they had neither heard nor seen any signs of violence before the opening of integrated schools in Little Rock. Between them, they could think of only one exception to a remarkable two-decade record of racial peace in their city. The exception: asked if he could recall any violent incidents during his 22 years on the police force, Chief Potts replied: "Just the usual thing. They'd get into rock fights once in a while after school hours...
...concentration in combined fields is permitted by the University and is mentioned under the rules of some departments in the Rules Relating to college Studies, the average student is usually discouraged when he attempts to combine fields. The lower-echelon brass in the departmental offices will quicky announce, "Never heard of such a thing. I'm sure it can't be done." The trusting student usually makes no further effort...
...heard a melange of justifications throughout his academic career, and he always culled through them in his mind to see if he might find something to say in his defense. He knew, for example, that a liberal education was supposed to make him a better, more well-rounded, more humble, more humane man. But he found it very hard to say to an old friend, "I am studying to be a better man than you will...
...liberal education was preparing him better for his future job. He could always point out, for example, that business schools didn't give any special preference to economics majors as making the best businessmen, but selected those students who had done well in any field. And he had heard in the Navy that NROTC students, though initially at a disadvantage, generally caught up with the rigorously trained Annapolis graduates after a few years. But these did not seem to be reasons for taking a liberal education, so much as reasons for not avoiding...