Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest danger which faces Rotary today is that we Rotarians, so smug and secure economically, feel that by simply belonging to the Rotary Club, we are discharging our obligations. Rotary was never meant to be a smoke screen behind which we could hide from our civic duties. . . . Adulation for the word 'service' has become almost nauseating. . . ." This brief brave speech was made in Asbury Park, N. J., by the second vice president of Rotary International, whose name is Leonard T. Skeggs. The president of Rotary International is Arthur H. Sapp...
...members of our team and department unite in sending the Harvard team and English Department most cordial greetings. We heartily appreciate the privilege of sharing in the first intercollegiate competition under the generous provisions of the Putnam Memorial. We are glad to feel that our mutual aims and friendship are thus confirmed and strengthened. George H. Nettleton...
...runners always enter a big marathon who have no intention of finishing. They start because they can run a little and feel that they might surprise themselves this time; anyway, they can say they started and if they feel tired they can drop out. Before the pack had gone far over the smooth hard road winding toward Boston several had sat down to feel their feet and before the race was half over the pack was cut in half. And still Ray stepped out on his toes, grinning...
George Bernard Shaw, author, vegetarian, made a horrid mistake in grammar while instructing people in the use of correct English on his first gramophone record for the Linguaphone Institute in London. He allowed his voice to say: "If what you hear is very disappointing and you feel instinctively 'that must be a horrid man,' you may be quite sure that the speed is wrong. Slow it down until you feel you are listening to an amiable old gentleman of 71 with a rather pleasant Irish voice, then that is me. All other people whom you hear at other...
Harvard man hero, you feel she does it because she, like Dorrie, had a longing for and a misconception of the East and its people. Dorrie, to be sure, is perhaps the kind of girl who would be pleased if someone called her a dreamer of dreams. But so, almost certainly, is Author Powell; and it is very pleasant, now, when most first-novelists are either rabid and wild-eyed sophisticates or intellectual inverts with empty heads, to read what has been written by someone who is neither ashamed or proud of naivete, who carries in her mind the torture...