Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the assistance of editorial art and sareasm, have, no doubt, tried to do everything in their, power to aid the Freshmen, and have showered us continually with brickbats of advice, I feel that several opportunities have been neglected. Not that I want to criticize: as yet I have felt no ill effects from the punch served at the Union's Freshman Reception, nor have I encountered any antediluvian phenomena since the jovial Phillips Brooks House reception. Still I feel sure that if Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender...
With puritanic prudence, the council felt they could not name a street after the rakish Steerforth. "Tis a pity, for what more appropriate designation could be found for some dark lane on the outskirts of the town. Although Steerforth must remain in Yarmouthian oblivion, the other characters will be immortalized on street corners. The councillors may well be satisfied with their work. In one stroke, they have protected public morals and preserved the memory of Dickens...
...Year, are attacking, and the very attack is a constructive one. It is our belief, stated infinite numbers of times, that what runs our religious services is the element of compulsion. Unless you call an operation for appendicitis a destructive operation you cannot call this newly expressed and long felt Yale attitude a destructive attitude...
...increase in juvenile suicide was traced to scholastic failures. Last year the suicide rate among persons 16 and under was ten to a million, thrice the rate of France, practically ten times that of the U. S. Most of the suicides were boys who had received bad marks and felt, in addition to their shame, fear of parental anger and chastisement, their careers having been mapped out for them from birth, and their flunks connoting life failure...
Dean Kirtley F. Mather of the Harvard Observatory has been feeling the geologic pulse of New England carefully ever since the earthquake series which she began to experience in September, 1924. He warned her in advance of the shocks felt last month in the Merrimac Valley (TIME, Oct. 19), and last week he told her that worse upheavals are coming, upheavals as violent as those that visited New England in 1775 and about the same calibre as the Santa Barbara shocks last summer. He predicted that the property damage to New England would be great because of the number...