Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since 1797, until last week, had the frigate Constitution felt the tread of a President's feet. Last week, "Old Ironsides," peacefully rotting in the Boston Navy Yard, felt the tread not only of a President, but of a President's wife and of their guest, the Secretary of Commerce...
...Dave" gave up. His attempts to reform the restaurants were no more popular with his own party than they were with others. He felt obliged to admit that after all the restaurant was perhaps cheap and excellent, even if it did not supply eggs and bacon for breakfast...
...reported that Mr. Warriner felt he deserved a rest, having negotiated for many years, and had promised his wife not to engage further in the bitter wrangles. A similar excuse was advanced for Mr. Richards...
...Yorktown World Forum was formed to perpetuate the Yorktown battlefield where Lord Cornwallis surrendered. British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, speaking recently, referred to a visit to the battlefield: "I felt that all bitterness, thank God, was past between us. I felt that just as our heritage of poets and sailors, of philosophers, lawgivers and statesmen belongs to you, so the greatness of your people is a greatness of which I, as an Englishman, have a right to be proud...
...comparatively new subscriber, I wish to state that while your publication fills "a long felt want" for one who has for years sought to find some condensation of the news and freedom from the slavery of the daily newspaper, I yet have two criticisms to make...