Word: heed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five men had their probation closed at one time or another during the year, and while the number of students now on "pro" is not available, those under that listing might well take heed...
...taking care of the exiles, Van Zeeland foresees two problems: "the status of the Jews' new country" and a slight readjustment of the world's capital. If the civilized countries take heed of the Jews' plight, it "would help general business recovery," the Belgian statesman predicts...
...Kaishek, whose whereabouts is usually a military secret, last week was revealed to have moved to a new headquarters in southern Hunan Province, midway between fallen Hankow and Canton. With British munitions and supplies cut off by Canton's fall and the possibility that French Premier Daladier will heed Japan's demand to close the supply route to China from French Indo-China, the onetime Red-fighting, Communist-hating Generalissimo has depended more & more on Soviet Russia for material. This has been going in by planes from stations on the outer Mongolian border and by truck caravans down...
Muttering incantations which charmers profess the snakes know and heed, the aged snake man moved about the villa and grounds. "Come forth, O snakes, in the name of Allah! In the name of Allah, O snakes, come out of your holes," he chanted in archaic Arabic. Suddenly he sank to his knees, began to blow a slow, wailing melody on his reed pipe, swaying his body as he played. Out from hiding slid the hooded head of a young cobra, then another and another, until nine young reptiles appeared, raised their bodies from the ground and riveted their eyes...
...years old. Not long ago a London dentist and amateur archeologist named Alvan T. Marston found in gravel at Swanscombe, Kent some human skull fragments which he thought to be of antiquity comparable with the Piltdown skull (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936). Academic anthropologists at first paid him no heed. But when the Swanscombe relic was examined under scholastic auspices, it was seen to be a remarkable thing indeed. Indubitably ancient, though probably not quite so old as the Piltdown, it had modern anatomical features. Anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith, who is 72, gave it as his opinion that the Swanscombe skull...