Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beast or animal. When I read the article on "Horses" [TIME, May 31, GERMANY] where the German moving picture producer, Schwarz, sprung a trap under two horses to make them tumble down the cliff onto the rocks below for the sake of making moving pictures of their agony, I felt as one would if someone would suddenly tell you that a certain man had tortured every baby in the world to his death. I felt like writing to TIME and telling to TIME how I felt, but I said to myself "TIME has no place for little boys...
...bill designed to aid farmers in forming and operating co-operative enterprises. In the Senate with an election coming on, and with the dissatisfaction registered by the farmers two weeks ago by the nomination of onetime Senator Brookhart and the defeat of Senator Cummins, there were many Senators who felt impelled to take up the Haugen bill to satisfy the farmers...
...last week General Lassiter felt obliged to introduce a resolution before the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission (of which he is chairman) intimating that the holding of a plebiscite is impossible in view of the failure of Chile to guarantee fair voting conditions to anti-Chilean Tacna-Aricans. After several days of hesitation the commission adopted the motion...
Entrance Limitations. The crush at U. S. college gates had continued until even huge Harvard felt obliged to announce a policy of restricting her freshman classes (TIME, April...
...towards the memorial to those 376 men, each of whom, God knows, did his bit. But the simple, unescapable laws of arithmetic intrude when one talks about $1,000,000 and, if our goal is to be reached, those who can be must be very generous. Your committee felt that if it circularized our 44,000 graduates without a preliminary sounding out for large subscriptions, the result would fall so far short that Harvard indifference would be a bitter jest when applied to a subject of such sacred sentiment as a memorial to its dead. Therefore so far we have...