Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only fault was that they were and are young, and, being more receptive to new influences than their elders, unconsciously responded more immediately to changing conditions of time and circumstance. After the war, sensing the general relaxation, they let down, while their elders still held blindly on. Presently they felt the coming of what is hoped will be a new epoch and lifted up their eyes to the hills while the old generation was still perplexed with doubt and question. It is within the bounds of possibility to surmise that another five years will see on both sides a restoration...
...Cabinet became known as "Guardians of the Constitution" or "Millerand's Messengers." So far as the Chamber of Deputies was concerned, President Millerand's term of office was up. But with regard to the Senate, the situation was obscure. It was felt, nevertheless, that the latter body, even if it supported Millerand, would not go to the length of dissolving the Chamber of Deputies. The President was, therefore, thought wise for renting an apartment in Paris...
...across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuctoo in the heart of the continent. No one knows what a thorough exploitation of the continent may mean to the world's trade. Since the War, the development of African Copper properties, such as Tanganyika Copper, has already made its influence felt in the world's markets. In time, it is probable that coal and oil resources will be discovered too. The Germans still hold one trump card in African colonization-Bayer 205. This drug, discovered by the same laborious research that produced Salvarsan, is apparently a certain cure...
...swiftly further up state. From the roofs of their office buildings, the excited citizens of Rochester and Buffalo greeted the vessel with shrill shoutings. To make the voyage still more memorable, Commander Lansdowne descended to an altitude of only 1,200 feet above Niagara Falls. The crew maintained they felt the spray, and for the first time the gigantic waterfall had a dirigible passing over...
When the California delegation in the next roll call, swung a majority of its votes to Hoover, confidence was felt among his supporters that he would secure the nomination. Watson, Kenyon, and DuPont figured in the balloting at first, but the issue soon narrowed down to Hoover and Dawes. Kansas gave '28 votes to the latter, Maine 16, Maryland 17, Minnesota 25, and so it went until pandemonium reigned in the ranks of the "hero of the reparations situation," and the landslide bewan. State after state declared for Dawes, the climax coming when New York and Pennsylvania gave...