Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never deeply regretted the fame that came to him when he tagged his name upon the National Prohibition Act. It was a nuisance, of course, when intoxicated traveling salesmen called Mr. Volstead up in the middle of the night to curse him, and it was not altogether pleasant to feel that a large portion of his fellow countrymen regard him as a wizened fanatic. But Mr. Volstead has surmounted these drawbacks...
...onto the road. Stifling fumes arose. The man ran to his wagon, into the noxious gases. Within a minute he fell into convulsions. A little while later he was bleeding from the mouth. Now, three years after, he is kept in a hospital. He cannot walk. He cannot feel. He writes inane and morbid poetry. He shouts out hymns for his own amusement. His wits are loose...
...spit on the gun to insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from a snake bite if the medicine man pretends to take a handful of ants from his mouth, for ants are supposed to be the poison...
...improve these educational editions for which the modern language department presents the most pertinent demands. As it is now, the books used create little but a dislike for foreign literature; whereas, if they were exchanged for complete editions, reading them would at least satisfy the curiosity of those who feel the need of a through investigation of their subjects...
...Many of the social problems that loom up so ominously before us today will eventually be solved. I feel sure, by experimental work in sociology such as we have recently undertaken at Minnesota," declared Pitirim Sorokin, professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, and one of the foremost sociologists in the world today. "While as yet we have attempted nothing on a large scale, we have obtained results that quite clearly indicate the future possibilities for an advanced development in this field...