Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tracing the situation in Germany back to the time when the United States Senate failed to back up President Wilson in his League of Nations, Sir Herbert blamed it on the United States. He felt that if the United States and entered the League that France would not have been afraid of Germany and would have allowed changes in the Treaty of Versailles that would have made it more tolerable...
...with tributes to his wife; poetic fervor ("you want to sing, dance, yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
...course, Music 24, a comparative study of old and new music, which is of wide interest to a large number of people. One hundred Radcliffe girls have enrolled in this course; but positively no auditors are allowed, first because the classroom is already full, and second because it is felt that a Radcliffe course should not be polluted by Harvard men. These being the most important reasons for the present state of affairs, it is easy to see that Mlle. Boulanger's sphere of influence is restricted by a host of technicalities, traditions, antagonisms, and sectional interests...
...Omar, on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem. Three weeks before, Reeves's wife had died in Egypt. A sympathetic friend dragged him on a painful tour of the Holy Land - painful because Reeves's grief deepened in the grim and melancholy country and because he felt one of his rare epileptic attacks coming on. As he entered the Temple he felt dizzy, leaned on a pillar for support, realized he was fainting and looked at his watch. It was 23 minutes to six. That incident takes place on page 49 of Hearken unto the Voice...
Then only last April, dispatches from Washington disclosed that Mr. Roosevelt felt that the time had come to lower prices. This was confusing, but the Roosevelt Recession which followed and which is still in our midst, is even more so. As the various business indices dropped lower and lower, government economists have been meeting more and more often and comparing their charts and theories. And last week, the President told the press the result of these conferences...