Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back in Moscow last week, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies explained that his tour of 14 European capitals was no personal junket but ordered by the State Department, since President Roosevelt wants to know how other countries feel about the U. S. S. R., now the biggest buyer of U. S. war goods (see above...
...twenty-one years ago, it ushered in a brand new approach, so far as the Harvard College Library was concerned, to the problem of supplying the student with books and encouraging him to read them. The prime aim was to put the reader at his case, to "make him feel at home," and to this end the room was comfortably furnished and attractively draped, and red tape was reduced to a minimum. No elaborate card-catalogues or "systems" were employed, and the nucleus of what is now a collection of five thousand volumes, was placed on the shelves alphabetically...
Most readers today are casual readers, and a casual perusal of Mr. Hillyer's poems will only make one feel that in many passages he has tried to imitate the criticisms of wilder moderns and in a manner faintly reminiscent of Pope...
...laboratory equipment, littered with blasted furniture. Then as the Rebel advance was stopped, forced back, he was in open-country fighting: advancing, dropping back, advancing again, sometimes in big attacks where tanks and armored cars accompanied the troops and enemy bombers retaliated in force ("I had been waiting to feel frightened, but each time the bombs fell before I knew, and then when it was over I thought that I had only felt excited"); sometimes in minor engagements where their only objective would be a patch of woods across a ploughed field, but where men would be killed as dead...
...parts of this the creaking of the Capek brain is depressingly almost audible, in others-particularly those dealing with the grave struggles of the diplomats to cope with the plethora of newts-the irony is sharp and vigorous. In any case, at book's end the reader will feel that he has pretty much covered the subject of newts...