Word: heed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the wheels of the big white Lock- heed Winnie Mae kicked a cloud of Roosevelt Field dust into the sunset one evening last week, they ended a story already read and reread by every newsreader in the land. Any urchin in the crowd of 10,000 that milled about the field could have told how the plane had left Solomon Beach near Nome two days before on the last laps of its round-the-world flight (TiME, July 6); how Navigator Harold Gatty had miraculously escaped serious injury when the propeller kicked him; how one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post...
...shrewdly susceptible Japanese long ago learned to like baseball when they watched teams from visiting U. S. battleships play it. Presently they began to play themselves, little pitchers with big ears who paid heed to all developments of baseball in the U. S. In 1914, the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants played an exhibition series in Japan. By 1928, baseball was more popular in Japan than the antique national sport of wrestling. Nowadays Japanese newspapers must report the world's series from the U. S. play by play. Last week a syndicate, backed by Japanese tycoons...
...Board will not authorize the Grain Stabilization Corp. to make stabilization purchases from the 1931 wheat crop. . . . Spring planting of wheat is at hand. Let farmers heed the warning to reduce acreage...
...Coast Guard boat CG-145 fired three blank shells as a warning for the fugitives to stop. The warning was ignored. He then turned his searchlight on his laterally striped Coast Guard ensign and fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin lay her captain, William P. Cluett, smashed by the Coast Guard shell...
...Root gave the impression that he thought it highly unlikely the U. S. would ever have to exercise its withdrawal privilege because the World Court would always heed a U. S. protest. Said he: "It was the existence of this power of withdrawal that made the agreement possible...