Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought the Hales fresh cause for labor on behalf of France. They went to France in 1940, worked with French and other Allied relief officials until June, then returned to the U.S. and embarked on lecture tours to raise funds for war refugees. In April 1946 the Hales first heard how the Germans had treated the tiny Loire village of Maillé; because they suspected the villagers of hiding an English pilot, the Nazis had killed 124 men, women & children, then razed half of the dwellings. The Hales decided to "adopt" the village, spent more than $25,000 providing their...
...pigeons lay headless on the very greensward of the medieval Tower of London where Anne Boleyn's head had rolled. "At night," said one of the Tower's famed Beefeaters last week, "we heard awful noises in the casements." Yeoman Quartermaster Thomas Johns set out four traps, and what he caught was enough to startle even that grizzled veteran of two wars. "I thought," he said, "I was in the wilds of Borneo. I saw nothing like this one in India." The quarry was a huge and ferocious cat whose writhing body "nearly filled the two-foot cage...
Individually, the houses pledged: Winthrop 100, Kirkland 65, Adams 60, Lowell 60, Dunster 46, Leverett 40, and Eliot 25 pints. The Yard and many house entries have not been heard from...
...amazing fact that a concert of the relatively obscure violincello sonatas of Beethoven could pack Sanders Theater, but pack it did Wednesday night. An audience so large that many were standing along the back walls heard Bruce Simonds, dean of the Yale Music School, and George Brown, a member of that school's faculty, play three of Beethoven's five sonatas for piano and cello and 12 Variations on a Theme by Mozart...
...cello, on the other hand, frequently could not be heard. On a few rare occasions it could be heard all so much. During the rondo movement of the Sonata G minor and the last movement of the Sonata in A major it went distinctly flat. The general impression created was that Mr. Brown was nowhere near up to the technical standards that the piano was setting. He played too quietly and lacked the precise timing necessary in the fast movements...