Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscure military convention which compels the Corps of Cadets to execute a few simple little movements on such occasions is an insistent demand on the part of the public that they do so. The cadets do not do this because they enjoy it, but because they feel it a duty to the public which supports their Alma Mater...
...plain, concise, conversational English and hold our regard and subscriptions ? It is not pleasant to be made to feel that someone is trying to see what he can do to the English language. You have shown that you can do it. Why not now be good and let it go at that...
...know who writes your book reviews, and I have made no attempt to find out. I do not object to his slang or the slang of any of the rest of the staff; I enjoy it, at times, with Mr. Tuck. But I feel that you should begin at once to censor the reviewers vulgarities, for your own good. Your circulation cannot depend on your catering to people who would read with relish rather than with revolt such a passage as the following, descriptive of a very brief courtship: "hardly more than an appraising glance and a rush upstairs...
...second question: is it important that the United States give its support to the Court? First, I must say that it is less important today than when President Harding and Secretary Hughes proposed this almost three years ago. For during this interim the Court has got on its feel. It has succeeded in entrenching itself. It has won prestige and confidence among the lawyers of all countries. It has acquitted itself well. It has found itself. Its future new seems secure. It does not lack cases, it does not lack friends, it does not lack funds. Forty-eight other nations...
...mean that we have today no part in international organization. For fifty years, we have played our role in a league of nations which now happily includes nearly all the peoples of the world the Universal Postal Union. We have even begun to feel our way toward some method of sharing in all the cooperation now under way at Geneva. But in the big advance since the war, we who stood out most valiantly for international law and order while we were a young, struggling nation, have not only not been able to keep our leadership, we have ceased...