Word: feeler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interviewed privately, Mr. Howe declared he was dead serious. He explained away a similar announcement last January by saying that that had simply been a feeler. His strongest campaign card, said he, would be his pledge to write a daily column "on what goes on in Washington so it can be understood out in this part of Texas...
Alabama's Bankhead last week startled the Senate by suggesting that it go home soon. His listeners wondered if Senator Bankhead was putting out a feeler for the President, who enjoys life much more when Congress is not around. If that was the case, here was another occasion on which Mr. Roosevelt had not seen fit to take his Majority Leader into his confidence. For among the first to rise in surprised opposition to Mr. Bankhead's idea was plodding Leader Barkley...
...static conditions, has a cork-centre bounce, has a frequency that can be measured at distances as low as 50 feet off the ground. Sensitive at present to 5,000 feet, improvements in the tube and transmitter can extend the altimeter's effectiveness to 15,000 feet. As feeler for possible obstructions dead ahead, the present 5,000-foot range would be inadequate because it would give a pilot flying three miles a minute less than 20 seconds in which to climb out of danger...
Being a kind and patient man in private life, it would take what Pegler calls a "Viennese head-feeler" to explain his acidity in print. Born in Minneapolis, he worked for the United Press in the U.S. and abroad, wrote a column of sports comment before Roy Howard brought him to the New York World-Telegram in 1933 and made the universe his beat. Pegler is a laborious writer; his brisk, integrated sentences are the result of patient rewriting. Most of his turbulent columns are composed in the seclusion of his Pound Ridge, N. Y. estate, near the haunts...
...Houston next month. Since the breakdown of C.I.O.-A.F. of L. peace negotiations last winter, William Green has rapidly gained confidence, and last week he was feeling sure of himself. After a parley with three of Mr. Dubinsky's vice presidents who set out to extend another feeler to Mr. Lewis in Washington, Mr. Green announced that the next peace move would have to come from C.I.O., that in the meantime A.F. of L. would be glad to take disillusioned C.I.O. unions back into the fold, whole or piecemeal...