Word: feel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that W. M. Ledbetter in your issue of Dec. 26 has given what I believe to be another erroneous explanation of this title by stating that it was conferred on Senator Warren "by the late Champ Clark because of the Senator's vast sheep interests in Wyoming." I feel sure that the designation was conferred on the venerable Senator from Wyoming by Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa, on June 8, 1909, during the historic debate on Schedule K (the wool tariff) in the Senate, from which this extract is taken...
...unpleasant things. Thus, for example, when politicians tell him, for their own purposes, that the tariff discriminates against him, he believes it. Were the politicians honest, they would say that the tariff favors manufacturers, which is very different. But instead of mere jealousy, the farmer has been made to feel that he suffers downright injury from the manufacturers' tariff. Similarly, ever since the Government fixed farm prices as a War measure, the farmer has been told, and he believes, there is no honest reason why the Government should not try to stabilize farm prices permanently. The Federal Reserve Board...
...great mistake to think the tendency of advancing science is toward materialism. Just the opposite. The repeated discoveries of new and unexpected types of phenomena in the physical world make us realize more than ever the limitations of our understanding and lead us to feel with the poet that 'As knowledge grows, from more to more will reverence in us dwell...
...course a cow produces far more milk than that. A good one will give bout 25,000 Ibs. a year and feel proud. Yet Segis Pietertje Prospect, property of Carnation Stock Farm at Oconomowoc, Wis., might well boo at such normalcy. She has filled the pails with 37,381.4 Ibs. of milk in a single year-the world's record. She is a Holstein...
However, let nanny goats feel no humility. They give each year 15 times their weights in milk, whereas cows niggardly produce only six times their weights...