Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year or so ago when Attorney General (now Associate Justice) Stone came into office, he ordered that every effort be made to clear up the large number of Prohibition cases in arrears before the courts. The effort was made. Mail)7 convictions resulted. Now the result is being felt. The Federal prisons at Atlanta, Leavenworth and McNeill's Island are badly overcrowded. Some prisoners have been "boarded" by the Federal Government in local jails-an expensive business for the Government. In order to reduce the crowding, the board of paroles has been ordered to expedite its work. Ordinarily...
...producers of receiving equipment surpassed even the surprising demand last winter, and piled up this spring large inventories. Finally, the dull and uninspiring flood of stuff poured out on the air by many stations last season threatened permanently to impair interest in radio concerts; here, too, it is now felt that mistakes of the past will not be allowed to recur in the future, at least to the same extent...
Evans may well have marked this Carter wistfully, a lad whose 19 sum- mers nearly matched Evans' age (18) when he won his first Western Amateur title in 1909. And Mrs. Carter, trudging faithfully in the galleries, may well have felt her maternal bosom rapturously expand. Her slight son, unruffled by high winds, undismayed by sodden turf, continued ticking off pars, eliminated Rolfe, then Fred Lamprecht (intercollegiate champion). In the final, the Cummings-conqucring Martin had Carter in hand for 18 holes, no more. Three down as he munched his lunch, Carter recovered with a rush, won the title...
...years was so small as to be negligible is not accurate, because most of the Irish lace went to England and was shipped from there as an English product. In England, the trademark laws are so strict that no one dares to misbrand any article, and so we felt safe enough so far as the English trade was concerned...
William Tyler Page, Clerk of the House of Representatives, within the building, felt the shock remarked : "It happens every now and then...