Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower right hand one (there were no advertisements then**). After which, I "took my pen in hand" and sent in my subscription. Since then, I have brought it to the attention of my club women and other friends, many of whom are now subscribers. Your newsmagazine satisfies a long-felt want. You have the ability to inject a human interest into the dry current event-items. You present the characters who are in the limelight as real sentient, breathing entities instead of sort of automatons. You have us acquainted, we know them, and are personally interested in them. TIME...
...Lord High Chancellor of England, Frederick Edwin Smith, Baron and Earl of Birkenhead, now Secretary of State for India, introduced this bill into Parliament. Both the Lords and Commoners felt obliged to honor the weight of legal prestige behind the measure, and passed it. When British barristers realized its revolutionary import, special lectures bearing upon its interpretation were instituted by legal bodies throughout England...
...take it. ... Unfortunately most of the monuments of the world are to somebody who has killed a lot of his fellow men. . . . I do not expect to create a race of heroes by offering prizes. I know well that the heroic action is impulsive. . . . But I have all along felt that heroes and their dependents should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Observers noted that no pecuniary cares have devolved upon Edda Mussolini as a result of her heroism. Accordingly she will receive only a medal. The Hero Fund however might have additionally rewarded her in cash...
These times have seen a peak of economic emphasis. It has not only been sensed like a rising wind but also materially felt like a rough stone surface; and the doctrine has followed that the pocket book parrates history. Thither has American historical literature tended. Professor Channing's works emphasize trade motives. Much of supposed revelation has been written of New England's rum and codfish aristocracy. Fiske's guileless picture of the Constitutional Convention, newer authors have reformed. The wealth, business, and lineage of the "Fathers" have been analysed to prove the Constitution but a bulwark of property. While...
...Corporation replied that the song announced was an arbitrary selection and that Harvard must either sing it or withdraw. Under these circumstances and in view of the position which the Glee Club has consistently maintained with reference to the Intercollegiate contest since 1921, the Executive Committee felt that Harvard must withdraw from the contest. The matter was discussed most amicably with the Corporation. The decision had the approved of Dr. Davison and of the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Glee Club...