Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact remains that, when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin, he wrote and had published an oration on logo. He had several offers to go on the stage, "once to play with Booth in Hamlet." But, in general, he felt that the uncertainty of artistic emoluments and the shortness of his own stature barred him from the stage. So he turned to law; from law went to politics in order to get a job as prosecuting attorney at $66 a month. From politics he went to journalism-La Follette's Weekly-and, of course...
This year's problem was to plan a "Transportation Institute," with museum, laboratories, shops and fields included. When the problem was set, months ago, those devising it felt they had thought of something that had never been done before; two weeks ago, they were surprised to see a news-dispatch from Washington saying that in that city an association of leading engineers had been formed to erect (in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution) a great museum of engineering progress in transportation, and industry. The prize design may be chosen for Washington. It differed from all others in one feature...
...Macfadden system of obtaining health. I weighed 89 Ibs. After following it for years I weighed nearly 200 when I dropped it and recently I became too heavy and took up his exercises and diet while he was in Washington and have lost 36 Ibs. and never felt 'better in my life. This is a brief testimony which could be repeated by thousands of people...
...this was done by one man, single in purpose. As time went on, he felt himself to be within reach of the nomination. He felt the Democratic Party to be within reach of the Presidency. He staked his all on the great throw. He considered nothing, but the ways and means of success. He dedicated himself at the altar of his hope...
...publishers were loath to lose such a goldmine. They cast about for a successor, and now they have blandly announced that they "felt that the lamented death of the creator of Pollyanna should not deprive the public of the eagerly awaited continuation of the story of Pollyanna and the glad game...