Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extra awards were voted by the Trustees of the Foundation as the result of many letters received from educators, university professors and others, all over the country, who felt that such prizes would add greatly to the value and interest of the contest by providing contestants with a larger number of chances...
...football games except that with Yale are played in the Stadium? What eye has not rapidly scanned the list of Important Dates in the college year, starting with that of registration and blithely swooping over the months to the far distant Commencement? It is the first real bond felt by the Freshman, is this juvenalia, for it is much more personal and more intimate than the frigidity of the application blanks and schedules which trickle from University Hall all during the summer...
These four volumes were enlarged in 1838 and in 1841 the publishers felt they must issue a still more advanced reader. But Dr. McGuffey had left Cincinnati. So they engaged his smart brother, Alexander H. McGuffey, 16 years younger, a lawyer and Hebrew scholar. He it was who contributed the Rhetorical Guide which, later called McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader, easily rivaled all the original four readers for popularity and inspired the elder brother to compile a prodigious Sixth. The Guide contained selections chosen to improve inflection and memory as well as morals and sentiment. There were the "Village Black...
Linus ("Pony") McAtee, 29. is a jockey. Nature had made him dark and small?but not quite lean enough for a jockey. Sometimes he had to take off so much weight before a race that he felt his skin did not quite fit him. This was hard on his health, made his complexion sallow and his digestive system awry. Nevertheless, he was considered one of the best jockeys of the Harry Payne Whitney stables. People were surprised last year when he suddenly left Mr. Whitney. He had a reason...
Nothing was the matter with 19-year-old John Webb. He felt fine, had good appetite, was merely taking his 612-lb. self to visit friends in Hackensack...