Word: felted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into the various positions in order to discover the one in which the pressure of the stones was least felt...
...away well and passing the boathouse were well together. Passing the second bridge the force of the wind was felt and the work of the crew suffered accordingly. After shooting the Longwood bridge into the basin the seas began to wash into the boat, and at a point about midway between the Harvard Bridge and the Union Boat Club the barge filled with water and the crew were obliged to swim to the launch. The men were taken immediately to the Union house and driven out to Cambridge from there in carriages. The launch then returned to the submerged barge...
...College at Mr. Hopkinson's School in Boston where he was prominent in athletics, and although he was in College but a short time this year before his last illness, he was generally known and beloved by his classmates and old schoolmates among whom his death will be deeply felt...
...outcome of the Cornell debate was unexpected to many of the Pennsylvania sympathizers on Saturday evening, but the justice of the decision was never for a moment doubted. Yet it is generally felt that the Pennsylvania debaters certainly did themselves much credit in the face of the fact that the judges might possibly have been influenced, though not prejudiced, in favoring the side of the question most evidently the right and just one. Possibly the mistake made by the Pennsylvania debaters consisted in placing too much stress upon oratorical expression and not enough upon the matter of the argument...
...most familiar and unfamiliar words were unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker, but a member of the United States Senate. How that was I can not tell, but it always imparted a touch of tenderness to me to feel that he had made a sacrifice for what he loved. In the anti-slavery school there...