Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort to relieve Harvard Square's acute parking problem. Councilor Cazmay has introduced a petition into the Cambridge City Council to have the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets, in front of the Pi Eta Club, rounded off. Aesthetic reasons also underly the petition, for it is felt that the rounded curve will add to the appearance of the city and minimize the traffic dangers of sharp corners...
...ever worn on such an occasion), she delivered her short inaugural in a low voice before a gathering in the Senate Chamber at Cheyenne. "My friends," was her form of salutation. She continued: "Owing to the tragic and unprecedented circumstances* which surround my induction into office, I have felt it not only unnecessary but inappropriate for me to now enter into such discussion of policies as usually constitutes an inaugural address...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill's gruff chronicle of a girl who felt the call of youth stronger than her duty to her ancient husband. Rigid and stony tragedy...
...While in China I bumped into a war," he told me, "and I wanted to see how it felt to be under fire again. They certainly are stupid fighters : I stood behind a temple wall and let a sharpshooter spatter bullets all over it. He never came within a mile of me! "My wife, though, got into more serious difficulties. She went out walking one day and just as she was enjoying the scene, the Chinese thought they'd start their war, and she found herself between the armies. Fortunately a shell that struck three feet from her proved...
Evidently the atmosphere of the convention had laid heavily upon Dr. F. P. Keppel,* President of the Carnegie Corporation. Perhaps he felt that in such density there was no chance for the proverbial spark that might set the world afire. He therefore rose and told the assembled 299 in words plain, blunt, humorous : "Imagine a group of librarians or college professors or Presidents here spontaneously bursting into song or dancing, or both. Yet that is just what we need to break through our self-consciousness and our patterns of convention. This is fundamentally what the arts...