Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long distance at all. ... It all came out in the early wash the day after the letter arrived that a member of the chemistry class which released the balloon had connived with a pen-pal in Singapore to mail the letter, which he himself wrote. The prank-loving student felt the qualms of conscience and 'fessed up when his classmates collected a sum of money to send to the "Chinese old man" to redeem the balloon...
...made them. Court dignity as well as obvious conventions naturally prohibit members from gossiping about each other to the press. Nonetheless, Mr. Childs is such a good friend of Justice Harlan F. Stone that by last week he and Justice Stone's office both felt called upon to deny that Mr. Stone had been Mr. Childs's chief source of information. By this time Scripps Howard Columnist Raymond Clapper had written a column corroborating Mr. Childs's article and adding that Justice McReynolds had been amused by it. Reporter Herbert Little of the Washington News had noted...
...carnival surroundings at Churchill Downs last fortnight, he had finished second to Lawrin in the $57,000 Kentucky Derby. But last week, in the patrician atmosphere of Maryland's old Pimlico, where the spectators' blood lines are almost as genteel as the horses', Dauber apparently felt at home...
...part of the past of New England, a deep-seated feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like an amateur, was as much a vital part of him as the instinct of hunger or love. Perhaps Herman Manville--who had known this harbor like a home--had felt the same intense experience, perhaps had sat on the self-same breakwater, and had distilled that sensation for all time in the story of Ahab and the white whale...
Borderline cases between a cum, and a magna will still require an oral, as will the case of any possible summa candidate. "The summa cum laude degree is so unusual," said Buck, "that we have felt it best to retain the oral examination before awarding...