Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highly complimented" felt Senator Borah last week to learn that his State, following the example of Wyoming which named its highest peak after its longtime Senator Francis Emroy Warren (TIME, July 1), was naming its highest spot Mount Borah. The Idaho Geographic Board, with the Senator's permission, forwarded the mountain's new name to the U. S. Geographic Board in Washington for inscription on all future maps...
Said the prisoner, turning to the Jury: "Gentlemen: My mother was suffering torture. The doctors agreed she could not recover. I felt that, though I broke the law, I did right. I'm willing to pay any penalty you think just. My action would not have been necessary if the state would pass a law enabling doctors to end the suffering of incurables...
...Soares's further suggestion that College courses should actually be linked with particular activities and the problems encountered in the field be elucidated in the class room even less enthusiasm may be felt. It is not the fact that the college newspaper teaches journalism or the Dramatic Club acting that makes them valuable; it is the fact that they afford some little contact with the problems of doing things in general. And on the other hand the more contemplative training of the class room can only furnish a general background of knowledge the immediate and specific application of which...
...West Virginia Wesleyan), David Myers, who is a Negro, sat on the bench "with a cold." When Coach Meehan admitted he had agreed not to play Myers against Georgia, N. Y. U. students promised to boycott the game. Thereupon Meehan announced that Myers would play. Myers said: "If I felt I wasn't wanted in the game I wouldn...
...could be a "sweetback" (Negro gigolo). Taylor was not, but he was chauffeur, porter, valet. Later he toured with Circusman Ringling. But he was not satisfied. Something new was growing in him now-he wanted to sing the woes of his race. Like many a Negro he felt a queerly mixed hatred and love of his people...