Word: heard
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Professors in subjects related to India saidrecently they have heard indications thatadministrators are considering estblishing anIndian Studies research center. Harvard mustimprove its academic range, they said, because itsfine collection of Indian books is going to wasteand the nearly 1 billion people who inhabit thesubcontinent make it a crucial region that iscurrently under-explored...
Then, with the civil rights leadership contending with an increasingly antagonistic Reagan administration, it looked as if inroads cut in the late 1970s by Hoover Institute economist Thomas Sowell would allow other conservative Black voices to be heard. In the years following Sowell's first publications, comrades emerged: Walter E. Williams, a George Mason University economist, Robert L. Woodson, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, and most visible of all, Kennedy School Professor of Political Economy Glenn C. Loury...
Both of Tribe's secretaries heard strange noises over his phone two weeks ago, which sounded as though someone were picking up the extension phone. But the secretaries heard the noises on a weekend, when no one was in the office with the extension...
Tribe, who testified for three hours against Judge Robert H. Bork in the Senate confirmation hearings, last week told The Boston Globe that he hired a surveillance expert on Monday, November 2--two days after his secretaries heard the sounds--on the advice of his attorney...
Even on the field of love, Romano lacks solemnity. In the sequence in which he begins to woo Anna, he tells a hilarious cock-and-bull story about his life. Anna asks him how he injured his leg. "Have you heard of Vesuvius?" he asks her. She has indeed heard of the volcano and knows it erupted several centuries before, so Romano changes his story to "My ancestors were from Pompeii...