Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms of national wealth and productive capacity, the U. S. had no need to feel a sense of weakness or hopelessness about its land, unless it enjoyed a feeling of weakness or hopelessness. It also...
...Adolf Hitler when the one formally announced war aim of Great Britain is to eradicate "Hitlerism" surprised those who had heard him on other occasions criticize the British Government for countenancing aggression in Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia. While some M.P.s, many of them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came near to suggesting that peace talk at such a time was the next...
...Daily Princetonian had nothing to say editorially about war. But Editor Robert P. Hazlehurst admitted: "There's not much doubt as to how Princeton men feel about the war: we are naturally biased in favor of the Allies." Meanwhile at Vassar College, in the Miscellany, Editor Nancy Mclnerney of South Bend, Ind., spoke for young womanhood: "We don't want our husbands shot. We favor the cash-and-carry act because it is more neutral...
...hope of finding relaxation and entertainment. When busy men and women pick up general magazines they do so for much the same reasons. Editors of these magazines try to sell the public their own private blend of diverting stories, entertaining skits and topically informative articles. And most of them feel that the recipe is bettered by the addition of discreet dashes of something more unconventional, personal, exciting-verse...
Under the nighthawks, high and strange, Through beauty which is almost pain, Through wild juniper by the sea, The cows are coming home in Maine. Such lines, like the rest of Coffin's better verse, will make readers feel that they are being offered complimentary tickets to a prettier world than their daily one. Unfortunately these tickets give admission to no world, but only to the Maine-strewn inside of Coffin's curly head...