Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myself have been growing more alarmed month by month as the volcano has not erupted. The nature of its volcanic structure is such that it should erupt at a regular three-monthly period. Recently it has lagged behind its period for five months; and I confess to having felt great uneasiness lest the period should stretch to a year or more. In that case the eruption, when it came, would have taken place with terrific violence...
Observers were inclined to look upon the events of last week as a victory for "Little Tsar Boris" and his father, that arch plotter, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand (TIME, Nov. 16). It was felt to be obvious that M. Liaptcheff, a greying political veteran of three score, will prove more easily manageable than the ruthless arch individualist, Tsankov...
...baby was born in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The public that went to see it felt much as Benjamin Franklin did when, to conceal his misgivings, he said to a French balloonist who had urged him to ascend, "Newborn infants are singularly uninteresting...
...Queen Helena were urgently summoned to her bedside. A long standing attack of pleurisy had at length reached the crucial stage. At eleven o'clock the next morning Queen Margherita died. The Italian people as a whole unquestionably experienced a sense of a personal loss very similar to that felt throughout England upon the death of Alexandra (TIME...
Thus war was a subject on the program, and 181 delegates signified that they would utterly refuse to participate in "the next one"; but 65 felt that their duty to their country or their God might lie in fighting; and 215 "had not thought the thing through...