Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Island's social capital Mr. Jardine had learned to chitchat, and last week he attended a garden party of some 60 prairie editors who quizzed him on baptism and similar subjects. No religio-infantile authority, Mr. Jardine shifted the conversation to a region where he felt at home-farming, and even then delivered no farm relief oration, but, on the contrary, brought agriculture down to a game as simple as parchesi...
...over-zealous in their ministrations to the accelerator. Had they been gallopading? Driving with one hand ? Gas-hawking, road-hogging? Amazed that good Catholics could ask such well-nigh blasphemous questions, Bishop O'Connor made answer. For no such ribald reason had he forbidden motor vehicles. He simply felt, he explained, that priests in the city did not need them...
...eyes felt heavy and I had a consuming desire to sleep. . . . I felt myself puffed out and de formed." (Atmospheric pressure had decreased, letting his body cells expand...
...treated a patient it has been done solely from a scientific motive." The workroom obscurity which Dr. d'Herelle maintains, Professor George Hathorn Smith of Yale would like. Before Dr. d'Herelle's first brochures relating to bacteriophagy appeared in 1917, Professor Smith, bacteriologist and immunologist, felt that "our ideas concerning immunity were entirely inadequate." There seemed "injustice in so organizing this universe that of all living creatures the one with the greatest parasitic tendencies should itself be free of parasites." Dr. d'Herelle's work suggested an explanation. Professor Smith became his translator, really...
...TIME OF MAN-Elizabeth Madox Roberts - Viking Press ($2.50). It is felt at once that this book was a long time in the writing; that, now it is here, it constitutes a distinguished contribution to the abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from...