Word: heeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instead of the community assuming this important function, it left it to private initiative, as has already been explained at some length. Despite nearly a century of experience, had we been willing to heed it, we have almost ignored our moving streets--our transit lines. We have permitted private capital to exploit our transit necessity, and we have gone on planning foot transit street systems during all this time, and wondered since we were doing what we had been doing from the beginning, why the population did not spread out at once to all of the new areas opened...
...Woods, to whom Athens is as real as Broadway. Literature is safe in their hands. Meanwhile the rest of us rush on regardless of the delights they offer us, to look for happiness in State Street or Back Bay. The only sad part is that fewer and fewer give heed to their voices. We may be missing something but there is no time to stop...
Thus England stands between two fires. To refuse to heed the Mohammedan demands means revolt in India and perhaps in Egypt as well. Yet to comply with them would cause the breaking of promises made to Jews and Arabs as to Jerusalem and Mecca, and the return of the Sultan to Constantinople. It would further entail recognition of the power of the Moslem in a British dominion, as well as the relinquishing of India to confusion. For the Hindus are not yet ready for complete self-rule, despite the great extension of powers granted them through an Indianized civil service...
...senseless rhapsodies into which the sensation-mongering Press are impelled by the annual approach of the Inter-University Boat Race, form already a danger sign to which it would be well to pay heed. Let these be relegated to our professional sportsmen and those amateurs who have devoted themselves to the maintenance and improvement of the national standard. The Universities and Public Schools can do well without these storms of public advertisement . . . . No; the tradition of Public School sport is that it is a recreation and not a profession, and as long as this tradition remains the better will...
...proceedings in a big game. I see no reason why anyone should cater to the parsimonious or unscientific methods of the newspapers regardless of how loud they may howl. Some of the stronger exponents of the suggestion are teams who are urging it for distinctly selfish reasons. What heed, in turn, should be given them...