Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first the Senate was angry- not so much at what the Vice President said as at the bold way he said it-and then it was amused, or if it could not be amused, pretended to be. The Senate felt it had little to worry about. Once in four years the Vice President can make a little speech, and then he is done. For four years he then has to sit in the seat of the silent, attending to speeches ponderous or otherwise, of deliberation or humor...
...President of the Chamber, feared it would be so close that he descended to the floor contrary to precedent and cast his ballot for the measure. The count gave M. Briand a bare majority of six-a margin so slim that except in an emergency the Cabinet would have felt called upon to resign...
...college delegates felt that the four-game schedule with teams of their own size and in their own vicinity would do away with much of the difficulty that now exists...
...college representatives who met at Wesleyan University to discuss intercollegiate athletics felt that athletics occupied a disproportionate place in college life and that they should be returned to their true position. This is particularly true of football...
...Everything collegiate, the delegates felt, should be considered with reference to the purpose of the college, which is primarily intellectual. Athletics are secondary, or should be, and intercollegiate athletics should be considered only as a branch of the athletics in which the whole college indulges...