Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against the President, wished to organize a Smith boom. He said that the famed kerosene lamp was obsolete, had been purchased at wholesale in 1867. He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine. Terming himself an "agricultural expert," he may have felt that Vermont farm life had been represented as unduly primitive. He said that many another old neighbor shared his opposition to four more years of Calvin Coolidge...
...lampoon hit the ball squarely and sometimes beyond home plate, the fielding, though ragged in spots, was on the whole determined and vigorous, but nothing could stop the sheer power of the CRIMSON willow wielders--willow wielders who felt that they were being cheated of their rightful score their tradition bound prerogative...
...chief objection to General Examinations in the middle as well as at the end of each year lies in the difficulty of making up two sets of examinations. Since the number of students who will be affected by the new ruling is very small, it has been felt that the advantages of General Examinations at midyears are outweighed by the weakening effect they necessarily have on the second set issued at finals...
...number of students wishing to complete their requirements for the Bachelor's Degree at the Mid-year period has declined to a mere score, there is sufficient cause besides that of a striving for improvement for the elimination of the February General Examinations. Undoubtedly the various Departments have felt the ravages incurred by the comparative excellencies of the two sets of ingulsitions, for previously the questions asked in the winter papers have been accepted as more or less of an indication of those which would not be asked in the following spring or at least which would be passed over...
Star Delegations, The 1,000 delegates felt keenest interest last week in two delegations, composed (as to important delegates) respectively of 6 U. S. representatives and 16 Soviet Russians. Never before has the U. S. sent a "delegation" (as distinguished from mere "observers") to a conference called by the League; and not since the Lausanne Conference of 1923, when a Soviet envoy was murdered on Swiss soil, has "Red Russia" sent delegates of any kind into Switzerland...