Word: felt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them wriggle, whistle, cheer, shout, sing, throw paper darts. Once, when they dared him to, he brought down the wrath of Philadelphia's Tories by playing the Internationale. Stokowski's Youth Concerts became the most jam-packed events of the Philadelphia Orchestra's season. Optimistic highbrows felt that a sizable percentage of Philadelphia's jitterbugs had been saved for Beethoven...
...would ever fail," inquired the program notes, "to understand the vibrations of hydrogen, if he had felt them while dancing with a beautiful living atom in his arms? Who would ever forget the position of the bonds in benzene if he had played the part of a carbon atom whirling around with lovely hands holding him on either side...
Whether or not these opinions will immediately produce new leaders is hard to predict. It is even harder to foretell is hard to predict. It is even harder to foretell when these new sentiments will make themselves felt. But, if these surveys can be regarded in any way as prophetic, one thing seems sure: the new generation of voters will cause a profound change in the ideas and principles that compose the American body politic...
Sponsors of the petition expressed considerable satisfaction with the numbers of signatures which almost doubled their original expectations and felt that the University would be forced to take some sort of action in the course of the next few weeks...
Later Mr. Thweatt declared: "At the close of the talk, Capone's face seemed to radiate, and when I asked those prisoners to stand who felt the need and will to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, he was the first to rise." That this "conversion" had taken place, no one doubted. Said Prison Warden E. J. Lloyd: "Sure, the ministers do that all the time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd...