Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save his life; no corps of top-notch lawyers leaped to his defense; America's conscience was not in the least disturbed. The young man was not even given the right to a trial! Within a few hours he was dead- killed by a band of men who felt they had the right to take the law in their own hands...
...lorry owned by Hall & Pickles rumbled from one direction, the motor car of a Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden purred from the other. Right before Mrs. Smith's horrified eyes they crashed. Mrs. Smith screamed to her grandchild to run, then collapsed. She says she has not felt right since...
...lozenges to Mylon. The boy struggled, gagged, then broke into spasms of coughing and retched up nine marbles. "I swallowed them five years ago," he gasped. Three days later he said he felt better and his father called in reporters and babbled about a new medical discovery...
...Christian thinking much realistic pessimism had made itself felt. Christian Century, a thoughtful and influential organ of Protestantism, had lately declared that the churches today are in a "time of waiting," a time in which "the church does not know how to act; yet has not learned to wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...
...kind that no other name besides poetry is adequate except truth. . . . Truth is the result when reality as a whole is uncovered by those faculties which apprehend in terms of entirety, rather than in terms merely of parts. The person who writes a poem for the right reasons has felt the need of exercising such faculties, has such faculties. The person who reads a poem for the right reasons is asking the poet to help him to accentuate these faculties, and to provide him with an occasion for exercising them." In spite of this illuminating introduction, readers will still find...