Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stopped to help, and was cranking furiously away when the motor kicked. The backlashing crank broke his jaw; he later died of complications from the injury. Kettering, an engineering graduate from Ohio State University ('04), by then set up in his own Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (DELCO), heard of the accident, decided that he could do something to prevent others like...
...official ballot count was slow coming in from such out-of-the-way precincts as Nunivak Island, Pilot Point and Akutan, but long before all the outlying precincts were heard from in Alaska's first statehood election (minimum voting age: 19) the results were clear: the Democrats took every major elective office, from Governor on down, and in the 60-man legislature won every seat but four or five. Top men in the new state...
...German, Italian and other languages and had to teach them in a hurry, it was found that a far greater emphasis on actual speaking of the language was particularly effective. Tape recorders were pressed into use and men taught foreign languages by actual imitation of the sounds that they heard coming over the tape. When the war ended, Cornell was the first college to pick up this idea, using it on an experimental basis. By 1950 it had proved itself so successful that it was made the permanent method. As a result, Cornell has the most modern...
They were indeed mere minutes. It was about 11:30 p.m. when the biggest wave crested. Straight up into the air went the raft, and into the sea once more the men were flung. Mays got back first, then Strzelecki, and then Fleming. They called for Meredith, but they heard nothing, saw nothing...
...million Americans have policies with a face value exceeding $458 billion) last year paid $292 million, based on a stopgap law that levied the regular 52% corporate income tax on up to 15% of their net investment income. Industry executives who jammed the committee room for hearings last week heard Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D. Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Internal Revenue Taxation, indicate that the present tax is out of line with what other industries pay. Mills made it clear that a new deal must be worked out for Congress...