Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witness the laying of the corner stone of a building that will not only surpass in its splendid proportions any other that has been erected for us in the two hundred and seventy-seven years of the life of Harvard University, but it will also fill a long felt and grievous want, for it will furnish a place where our students can make the best use of every volume helpful to their education; a home for the treasures of learning and literature that have accumulated here in the course of generations, making those treasures accessible under ideal conditions to scholars...
Last week, when the Kelly-Nash machine was upset by Governor Henry Homer in the Illinois primaries (sec p. 13), Editor Harris might have felt some justifiable pride in having helped. But he was too full of worries. There was not enough money in The Beacon's till to pay for printing the first anniversary issue, now a fortnight overdue. Not ready to admit he was licked. Sydney Harris last week broadcast a final appeal for help...
...night. Dr. Bazett's first symptoms were typical of spring fever-laziness, sleepiness, a logy feeling. Then his ankles and feet began to swell. At the end of the first week he was drowsy, uncomfortable, mentally confused. But at the end of ten days he felt comfortable again, because his blood-making system had gone into action and made more than two extra pints of blood to cool his internal workings. His swollen ankles subsided, his mind woke...
...have to be. "Poverty isn't a necessity as it was 2000 years ago when there wasn't enough to go around. Today we can produce enough for all. On the threshold of plenty, we seem worse off than before," because American lacks consumers. The solution he felt, was not in "building monuments...
Under capitalism he felt that productive capacity could not be fully utilized. At least, "I don't think so." Nor could it erase depressions. "The best way," Hicks concluded, "of getting rid of capitalism is by joining communism...