Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exclusively to Harvard needs is to be invaded by a commercial and family hotel. That this hotel will be a profitable venture is quite certain, for it will be the only hotel in the neighborhood and on a much traveled highway to the west and north. Perhaps the authorities felt that they could not compete with hotel developers for the purchase of the site. But if they look into the future, they must see their plans for expansion disrupted, and the future of the university distorted by a non-college building in its very midst...
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School announced yesterday that he had definitely decided not to accept the offer of the Presidency of the University of Wisconsin. Dean Pound said that he declined Wisconsin's offer because he felt that he had made law his life work and that it would be unwise to change...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue reported on the income of the Treasury from July 1 to Dec. 31 last. This was the period in which the effect of last spring's tax reductions was first felt. The following table gives the internal revenue collections in millions of dollars as compared with the same period a year earlier...
...subject were the U. S., Britain, France, the Netherlands. The reason for this is not remote; the U. S. has the Philippines, Britain has India, France has large interests in the Orient, the Netherlands administer an empire in the East Indies. In all these countries, the opium evil is felt to a great extent, and a sincere desire is felt in common for a satisfactory eradication of one of the world's greatest scourges; but differences of opinion arose on the means by which a scotching of opium production is to be realized. These differences were capitalized...
Last week, Nurmi ran in Brooklyn, N. Y., was beaten, fixed a new world's record. The race was a 2,000-yard handicap, the occasion the annual indoor games of the Brooklyn College Club. When the pistol punched the air and Nurmi felt his lever-like legs beginning their incomparable trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson...