Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudest was Pennsylvania's tariff-championing Congressman Richard M. Simpson, whose key advice to candidates as congressional campaign chairman last fall had been to ignore the White House. Pressed to get back to his work in Congress, Simpson arranged to get on the program right after the delegates heard a message from...
Next day the meeting heard from the new Senate campaign chairman, Arizona's right-wing Barry Goldwater. Goldwater had flown out from Washington, been weathered in at Chicago, wired an urgent message. Alcorn's strategies, he said...
...refereeing is uncanny, although he cannot quite explain the secret: "I just do something a blind man can do well -make his ears and sense of location work for him." He is helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college (Western Reserve) when he learned that the queer tap-tapping in the recreation room was a game; learning the rules. Medick bet a pint of ice cream that he could score the noise without a mistake...
...Meister Elgar," said Richard Strauss, "is the first English progressive musician." The year was 1902, and Strauss had just heard Edward Elgar's massive oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. Since then, Gerontius has remained one of the most widely praised-and least frequently heard -monuments of English music. Last week Manhattan concertgoers had a chance to hear the full Gerontius score for the first time in a quarter-century. The occasion: a performance by the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir under Guest Conductor Sir John Barbirolli...
There is also an anti-volcano faction. One eminent American astronomer, who does not want to commit himself publicly until he has digested still more evidence, is highly skeptical. He has examined Alphonsus and has seen no slightest change. He has heard that some Soviet astronomers have their doubts about Kozyrev. They suggest that "he thinks that it is his destiny to make a great discovery." When Kozyrev made the spectrograms, he did not mention them to his colleagues at the Crimean Observatory. Instead, he rushed off to Moscow and a week later held a press conference to announce...