Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...care was continuing to propagate the species without molestation. With only Justice Pierce Butler dissenting, the Supreme Court ruled that the principle sustaining compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. It affirmed the state's right to call upon defectives for "sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned"; said the operation involved no "serious" pain or "substantial" danger. Concerning "discrimination," the Supreme Court said that the law could not be criticized for failing to reach all defectives when it was seeking to include them "so far and so fast" as its means...
...modern evil of the dollar in connection with athletics was not felt in the early days of Greece, as is shown by Yenophanes' statement to the effect that "small rejoicing would there be in the city over a man's victory on the strands of the Pises, nor would such a victory make the city any richer...
From this observers felt that Peace would be between Mexico and the U. S. for many a moon. The days (TIME, Jan. 24) when "Red" was the Coolidge Administration's adjective for Mexico are over...
...Britons and U. S. citizens in China against the Coolidge Administration boiled over and the American Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai met and demanded resignation from its membership of the China Weekly Review, the sole U. S. owned newspaper in Shanghai. Its editor, John B. Powell of Hannibal, Mo., felt obliged late last week to re-sign as president of a prominent Chino-British-U. S. Shanghai club. For what was he thus censured...
Long and prodding, the letter went on to discuss statutes and customs; to mention the failure of two Republicans (Grant and Roosevelt) who tried to alter custom; to refer to "your recent public rebuff to Herbert Hoover"* and the alleged embarrassment felt by other Republican presidential aspirants due to their chief's silence...