Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waited until their victims came upon the street. The Misses Keifer emerged, saw, sprinted. They were overtaken-whips lashed across their backs-black paws ripped their clothing, tore at their hair. Meanwhile, some 20 undergraduates from the University of Pennsylvania jumped into the battle, swung fists at Negroid jaws, felt knives in their flesh. Police arrived before any deaths were recorded...
...difficulty faced by American graduate schools is a very real one. The smaller college have felt it necessary to insist upon advanced degrees for members of their teaching staff and this has been very useful in raising the whole standard of our teaching, but men who are preparing to teach would really profit, but a somewhat different training from those who are planning to go in for productive scholarship...
...graduating seniors entering the Freshman class of night school in order to fill the gaping rift between Old and New World customs with a little pitifully mastered book-knowledge, in order to understand the foreign ways of their own U.S.-born children. Probably Playwrights Gropper and Siegel felt they had to make a comedy out of it, so in Act III, Daughter returns to the parental fold, puts aside a flashy lover for the night-school teacher, the young people stay in on occasional evenings, and Papa admits a few modifying Americanisms into the rigidly Talmudic routine of the household...
...writing should be able to learn the simpler fundamentals that are necessarily neglected in a composition course--a place where a student could discover the way of putting a story together, the method of "doing" an editorial, and of seeing his results in print. This mission the reviewer felt, the Advocate was fulfilling. Here was a medium, he felt as he read the paper, through which students were learning the art of saying something in a readable way, were exploring the intricacies of essay writing, discovering the methods of story writing and the subtleties of poetry--and doing...
...culinary department that his mis-management was most flagrant, and most felt. According to a contemporary account, the daily diet was mostly "porrige and pudding served without butter or suet." Mrs. Eaton, on whom her husband blamed the Squeersian board, admitted that "the flower was not so fine as it might nor so well boiled and stirred, and that the fish was bad." Pressed as to the presence in the menu of one of the most stable of foods-today, the lady said, "Beef, they never...