Word: felt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation and very little allusion. But the total effect is conventionality. We get no new ideas, no new sensations, not even a shock, except perhaps in Mr. Paulding...
...whose baseball training proved a handicap when compared to Bennett, as it made him prone to a certain awkward and upward stretch of the right arm, doubtless the result of reaching up after high drives during the baseball season, and in view of this slight technicality, I have felt that Bennett, whose double arm reach and sternum stretch is without flaw in its symmetry, deserves the precedence. --Michigan Daily...
They come from the Far West, where of necessity the interests of the belligerents and the stupendous tragedy of the great struggle must be felt less keenly. They are going a longer distance to "do their bit." The spirit that is symbolized in the service of these hundred men is worthy of our highest praise...
...what was the result of Major-General O'Ryan's order? A large group of officers of the Twelfth tendered their resignations, because they felt that they had been insulted. This act was startling and spectacular in the extreme; for its immediate cause was insignificant. It revealed the presence of strong feeling and overwrought nerves--a sort of bursting charge that needed only a slight detonation to set it off. The situation is very much as though two men should come to harsh blows because one had accidentally broken the point of the other's pencil. In both cases...
...Then for the first time the prisoners began to believe anew. They felt that someone was interested in them, and the harrier between prisoner and the outside world was broken down...