Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Emile Vandervelde, the Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, had announced that he would under no circumstances shake hands with Mussolini, whom he considers personally responsible for the atrocious murder of the Italian Socialist, Matteaotti (TIME, Oct. 19 et. ante), who was the close friend of Minister Vandervelde. It was felt that a scene could be avoided only by invoking an attitude of rigid formalism on the part of all present...
...satisfactory explanation of the situation. And we are fully convinced that the shame of the record that we have made is to be laid at the door of the college as a whole. The trouble may be traced to the very beginning of the year. So little interest was felt in the sport, that only a handful of men attended the annual football meeting in Holden. The strong and heavy men of the college refused point blank to take the trouble even to try for the eleven. Under these circumstances the inferior physique of our eleven need excite but little...
...Department to direct Col. Mitchell to appear before it. This was done because in the language of the Court Col. Mitchell had made certain public statements indicating that he was cognizant of matters that might prove of value in fixing the cause of the disaster and the Court felt it was entitled to whatever information...
...rosiest just before the storm. Hence, many far-sighted business men have for some time been trying to find the secret worm in the present beautiful apple. Even the always optimistic motor makers underestimated just how well cars would sell this year. Many less enthusiastic lines of business have felt for some time that business is "too good"-a practically new complaint...
...will do a textbook of the art and science of politics under democracy--that is, of practical politics, of the polities of job getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae...