Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together until, in your best judgment, after your best efforts, they made four. It would take a lot of time and hard work, but what I like about working for TIME is to see a sweated-out story like that appear in the magazine. It makes you feel that you've done a real job of journalism...
...hear naught, to feel naught, is my great gain...
...school on an American Field Service scholarship. But he thought he ought to see more of the U.S. than just the school he went to in Beaver Dam, Wis. So did the A.F.S., but it didn't know where the money would come from. Jean-Marie replied, "I feel that anything is possible in the United States." Local civic groups put the students up, and Greyhound lent a bus; the entire cross-country trip for 29 students set A.F.S. back less than...
Next Moment, Whoom! To watch* a jet engine spring into life is to feel that power. Dimly visible inside is the turbine, like a small windmill with close-set vanes. When the starting motor whines, the turbine spins. A tainted breeze blows through the exhaust vent in the tail, followed by a thin grey fog of atomized kerosene. Deep in the engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that...
...this made railroaders feel cheerful. They thought it proved that new trains could finally put the carrying of passengers-which has long been unprofitable for many roads-on a paying basis...