Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fireworks emanating from the Cannon section of the stands had their complement in the shoving, pushing, and elbowing on the floor. Princeton's captain Carl Belz, the top scorer in the Ivy League, even contributed a burst of profanity loud enough to be heard as far away as the Institute for Advanced Study. His pungent commentaries on the referees' decisions earned two technical fouls for the Tigers...
...facets. Professor X, for example, is "in" Chaucer. He has published several articles on the text, and has succeeded in exposing two punctuation errors in the Robinson edition. He seeks a job in State U. where old Professor Y, the incumbent Chaucerian, has just died. Now Professor X, having heard through a friend that the position is open, and having discreetly let it be known that he is interested, gets a request for copies of his articles. He dutifully sends them to the department chairman, on whose desk they sit unread, until the appointment is made. Meanwhile, the department chairman...
...friends and relatives with jobs. One hazard: if he puts someone with his own family name on the federal payroll, his open nepotism may well backfire when the payroll records are made public. Last week came time for the public report on payrolls, and, sure enough, the backfiring was heard round the country...
...team from the College will be seen in Burr Lecture Hall B and heard over radio station WGBH-FM at 5 p.m. Those attending are asked to arrive...
MOSCOW, Feb. 24--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev caustically attacked Western foreign policies on Germany today in a Kremlin speech. British sources said visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan reacted wth some shock when he heard of Khrushchev's remarks...