Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the departments which have definitely voted to try the reading periods in at least some of their courses are English, Government, Modern Languages, Ancient Languages, and Philosophy and Psychology. While the members of the German Department have not yet taken a final vote on the matter it is felt certain among the members of the department that the reading plan will be put into effect in the advanced courses at least. Comparative Literature, Social Ethics, and Fine Arts officers have decided to leave the adoption or rejection of the reading periods entirely in the hands of the heads...
...felt himself-at last-unable to combat intelligent-argument with loud and blatant phrases. They all lay down sooner or later...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine felt like a person who, upon making some sound in the presence of a high-strung friend, is suddenly turned upon and bitterly accused of willful noisiness...
...eight days Mrs. Sam Smith snuggled her newborn child to her, nursed it, found marked resemblances to her husband. On the eighth day she felt her strength returning. She discovered her suckling was a girl. Startled, she complained...
...little boy jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...