Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement of this transaction puts at rest the fear felt by many members of the University and alumni that the venerable dormitory, the College home of Mr. Stillman, would be demolished to make room for a hotel or an apartment building. It had been announced in February that Beck Hall would be turned over to the wrecking crew this June...
...those who take such necessary support for granted, it is interesting to note that the suppression of these two publications has brought on a wave of petty declarations from other college offices to the effect that any similar infringement of journalistic etiquette would be severely punished. Other colleges evidently felt that they might need to protect themselves against the irrepressible doings of their undergraduates, and be called upon to justify their actions in the eyes of the world. Unaffected by outside protest, the authorities of Harvard have quietly continued to keep their hands off of student opinion, knowing that...
...shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk on: not as a Freshman promenade but as a Business School thoroughfare. The Chinese element which has argued for a pagoda-like approach, the Indian students who have hoped for pontoons, and the Westerners who felt that they could get along without any bridge, will all be disappointed...
...total investment in the hat business of about $100,000,000. Some 300 factories in this country make hats, and 96 of them specialize in straws. Annual output is valued at $116,000,000, consisting of $32,500,000 worth of straw hats, $75,000,000 of "fur felt" hats and $8,500,000 of "wool felt" hats...
...Drinking was never really the curse of America. Eating was and is. I found that I ate too much when I was this side of 60. One day, I discovered that I felt unwell, very much below par. . . . Beefsteaks and roast butcher's meat figured too much in my diet, I concluded. Out they went, never to return. I'm not a vegetarian; wouldn't be one-that's going to extremes-but I don't need red meat and don't eat it. For 30 years, the only meat I've eaten...