Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paramount importance, should be the very ones to lag, that a depressing lack of facilities should hamper the investigation of an exceptionally capable body of research specialists whose work is, paradoxically, as commercial as it is cultural in its value. The increasing need which the scientific departments feel for equipment which may keep them abreast of progress, makes the University's inability to satisfy this need understandable, but it makes even more urgent the necessity of generous contributions which may enable biologic enterprise at Harvard to realize its fullest possibilities...
Before plump Mr. Hoover alone, a typical big business choice, the Houston Papists could at least evince an impudent sanguinity even if they did not feel it. But when he is backed by the bristing Senator Curtis and the latter's farm states lulled by pious Republican promises, the only Democratic hope lies in a decided stand for repealment of the Prohibition Act. And since the Democratic party does not even possess a Nicholas Murray Butler to table, this is equivalent to no hope...
...large number of people feel . . . that those who have the money to pay for such [alcoholic] beverages and have them analyzed can drink without risk of health, while those who cannot do so must either do without them or take great risks of being poisoned. It is for this reason that the great mass of our workmen and poor people feel that Prohibition does not prohibit, but is a scheme to deny them something. . . . Is it any wonder they should rebel...
...very fortunate in being the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Behr, in coming under the influence of excellent teachers, in having been initiated into the Phi Sigma Delta fraternity . . . and of attending a college with a campus so beautiful in its natural simplicity that one cannot help but feel the hand...
...picture will certainly irritate those who dislike Communism as it will those who feel that they deserve a story in return for the effort of watching a screen for two hours. Its photography is sufficiently original and its glimpses of uncomfortable armies and furious peasants are good enough to make the film fairly exciting for those whose esthetic instincts can sometimes be aroused by the cinema...