Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt as though I was standing still," commented a member of the Varsity hockey squad after the Crimson pucksters had engaged in an informal practice session yesterday afternoon at the Arena with the league-leading Boston Bruins of the American division...
...that was undoubtedly how all the members of the Crimson's first two lines felt after it was all over. All the Bruins, especially Charlie Sands, were able to outskate even the fleetest of the Harvard skaters. For the relative speed of the two squads was the only outstanding difference between them. That the Bruin forwards were able to score almost at will served to stress the fact that fast skating is the primary requisite for a good hockey team...
...will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying-they will be fostering a downward spiral, and they will make it necessary for their Government to consider other means of creating purchasing power." The phrase "other means of creating purchasing power" could mean only one thing-spending. Realists in Washington felt morally sure last week that unless business picked up in the spring the Administration program for dealing with depression would finally emerge as pump priming. A shot of inflation had worked once, and the needle was still in the medicine chest...
...thought as long as we were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going to crash and probably burn up. I figured that is what you do when you crash. You usually burn so I wrote this note . . . put it in my pocket hoping they would find it if it did not burn too. . . . I prayed plenty. I was going...
...gave U. S. writers a powerful insight into the workings of the minds of criminals, fighting men and tough characters in general. Imitators who borrowed his peculiar style soon burned themselves out, but the full impact of Hemingway's major achievement is just beginning to make itself felt in U. S. fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick...