Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided not by a puritanical conception of duty, as General Maurice would have one believe, but by the dictates of a high sense of personal honor. He must have realized that the life of the nation was jeopardized by the Southern secession, but when Virginia called him, he felt that he could not give his allegiance elsewhere. There is no grander picture in history than that of Lee, his mind with the North and his soul with the South, aligning himself with the stars and bars of the Confederacy...
...situation of 1925's football coaching problem arose. He gave as his reason the fact that the number of men taking military science courses in the University has been increasing so rapidly that additional instructors have become necessary. Colonel Browning had, asked for Major Daly among others because he felt that Daly, being a Harvard man knowing Harvard traditions, and possessing a remarkable ability to lead men, would be a tremendous asset to the Unit. However, he declared that he had no knowledge of his appointment by the War Department other than that contained in the daily press...
NARCISSUS, AN ANATOMY OF CLOTHES-Gerald Heard-Dutton ($1). Evolution raised man from the red earth naked. He looked at himself and knew shame; he felt the wind, was cold. Therefore he stole from the beasts their striped or tawny elegance, he scooped the rock and lived within it. Clothing and architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously...
...published an article at the hand of Mr. Barton: What Difference Does It Make? Mr. Barton declared that he had "almost quit reading newspapers" and in so doing had added 30 minutes a day to a life which he appears to relish keenly. At one time, he had felt it incumbent upon him, as a well-informed man, to consume one entire newspaper both morning and evening-glutting up all the stories about box victims, drink-mad stabbers, love-cult brides, modern Bluebeards, poisoned toadstools ,and incendiary spinsters together with more important social and political items. Then a flurry...
...quake was felt throughout southern New Hampshire and eastern Massachusetts, but several broken dishes in Malden proved to be the only loss of property. Several students in the University reported that they were rudely awakened by the rocking of the earth. The damage, however, to property in Cambridge and the vicinity of Boston, was absolutely negligible...