Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message the Council mentioned that it had heard "only a few (Harvard men) will be admitted" and that "this is not in accordance with Harvard's policy toward Yale men when the game is in Cambridge...
Leroy Anderson doesn't have time to play his trombone--or his tuba, double bass, organ or cello, for that matter--any more. But no one scems to mind. People who have heard "Wintergreen," "Fiddle-Faddle," or "Sleigh-Ride," are quite willing to settle for Anderson as a composer...
...return from service, Anderson went back to work for Fiedler, composing what is perhaps his most widely-heard number, "Fiddle-Faddle," in 1947. The newly-reorganized Harvard Band asked his help and he wrote medleys of most of the Ivy League songs; these became standard with the Band and have since been copied by many other eastern college bands because of their popularity...
...First Division ward died of childbed fever; most victims' babies died too. In other parts of the world the story was even grimmer. At Jena over a four-year period, the death toll among infection victims was 100%. Among "causes" of the fever, doctors who had never heard of the germ theory listed wounded modesty, cosmic-telluric influences, fear, bad ventilation, climate and a feeling of guilt...
...fever. "He saw himself dissecting ... He felt his fingers wet with the pus and the fluids of putrefaction. He saw those hands, partly wiped, entering the bodies of living women. The contagion passed from his fingers to the living tissues, to wounded tissues. He saw the women fever. He heard them scream. He saw them die." Finally Semmelweis knew the reason why more mothers in the First Division ward died: students fresh from the dissecting room were allowed to examine them...