Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aeschylus and the author of the Book of Job were at their ascendancy at about the same time, like two great morning stars of the world's literature. Each is important because in his work there is felt for the first time in the literatures of the world the spiritual awakening of mankind. Each cries, in the anguish of a tortured soul against the injustice of fate and of God, and that cry is symbolic of the first upward step in the sipitham progress...
Irreverent readers of the published results were loud in facetious badinage. Thinking members of the church, with or without regard to these former, felt that the campaign had been injudicious - that the wind of the spirit, blowing whithersoever it listeth, is scarcely to be gauged by a meteorological chart...
...mountain, until they reach the sea. Here their blind instinct persists and out they swim, still in the line of the migration, until the last one is drowned. Only a few will have stayed behind, hibernating or lacking true lemming instinct, or perhaps so hardy that they have not felt the need for a more congenial home. These will be progenitors of new millions...
...Geneva, Switzerland, Bacteriologist Henry Spahlinger heard a sudden explosion and felt himself splashed with slime. The container in which he was culturing virulent tuberculosis germs had burst. Knowing well the danger of infection the scientist stripped off his clothes and for two hours scrubbed his equipment and laboratory with germ-killing lysol. What germs he had involuntarily inhaled he hoped would die off be fore they could harm...
...native drum was produced coffee was brewed and the Arabs organized a barbershop quartee and sang like forty eat fights. As for the Europeans, I broke out a bottle of Mr. Hennessey's famous product, of the third magnitude, and we proceeded to wax very friendly. Presently, the Lieutenant felt constrained to sing of the charms peculiar to a certain lady from Armentieres, wherenon I retaliated with a spirited, I say advisedly, rendering of "Sweet Adeline." Then in semiunison we sang "Madelon" and other songs, while shrinking camels tried to uproot picket pins and the natives applauded deliriously...