Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example, who went on strike in disregard of his contract is personally liable to be sued in the County Court for damages. Every trade union leader who advised or promoted this course of action is liable to damages to the uttermost farthing† of his personal possessions. I feel it my duty, at whatever cost, to make that plain...
...feel guilty, Your Highness?" asked Judge Toereky...
Portuguese. Out of Lisbon harbor droned a big Portugese naval plane. The heart of old Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), who used to call international pilots' councils and who sent Gomez and Fernandez to feel their way down to and around the terrible tip of unknown Africa, would have swelled with pride to see Lieutenants Moreira and Neves-Terriera head out over the broad Atlantic for the Madeira Islands, some 800 miles away. . . . Nightfall did not find them in Funchal. Their plane had pitched to the sea, as if crippled, but it was not crippled?only...
...invented not merely a fantastic tale but complete ethnological, political and geographical data to go with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There is bloodletting for the sake of seeing an ivory floor incarnadined. The palace is yellow; the guards wear scarlet; Santa Barbarian males are tall, red-golden of hue and often go nearly...
...very glad that the Overseers are to have an opportunity to talk with undergraduates about the state of Harvard College. Having for several years had experience in conferring with undergraduate committees (especially with the Executive Committee of the Student Council), feel sure of the value to both of the consulting parties, and to the College, of such meetings as the one arranged for next Monday. I hope however, that no one will suppose that the undergraduates are running Harvard College, or that they want to, and I hope that we shall be careful not to overload Seniors with duties which...