Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From time to time the University has been accused of being impervious to suggestions for reform that come from below. That this is not necessarily so is shown again, for only satisfaction can be felt with Mr. Conant's adoption of the recommendations of the special faculty committee with regard to policy, tenure, and promotion of teachers. Now the road is paved for those whose ideas are not completely orthodox or whose teaching position is not fully assured...
Some 75% of U. S. citizens, through poverty, fear or ignorance, have never felt the pang of a dentist's drill. In large cities, crowded WPA clinics work overtime, but contribute only a drop in the bucket. In spite of numerous free school clinics, over 95% of U. S. school children are seriously in need of dental care. With these facts in mind, 3,400 members of the Dental Society of the State of New York, largest dental group in the country, met with 4,500 other dentists in Manhattan last week for the prime purpose of discussing Senator...
...those 14 years, earnest, honest Lou Gehrig, the sort of player managers dream about, made a fetish of his endurance record. Eclipsed by his colorful, temperamental teammate Babe Ruth, plodding Lou Gehrig felt that his drawing power was his dependability rather than his brilliance. When, at spring training camp this year, the Iron Horse suddenly realized that he was getting rusty, panic overtook him. He brooded, became tense at bat. Sportswriters, viewing his feeble performance, wrote his batting obituary-for all the world to read - before the season started...
...strain was more than sensitive Yankee Gehrig could bear. The highest-salaried ($34,000 a year) baseballer in the major leagues had succeeded in getting only four hits and driving in only one run in the first eight games of the season. Every time he went to bat he felt that all the baseball fans in the world could hear him creak. When he got a hit he ran as though there were lead in his shoes. He missed low throws and grounders. Convinced that he was a hindrance rather than a help to his team, 35-year...
Fritz Reiner, world-famous conductor of the Pittsburgh symphony, stated a short time ago that he was offering the post of solo trumpet to Manny Klein, now playing with Frank Trumbauer's orchestra, because he felt Klein's vibrato "much preferable to the stiff and dead tone used, as a rule by symphony...