Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back in the days of President William McKinley. In fact the gentleman is so venerable that today the new U.S. Secretary of State?Henry Lewis Stimson?is a man who used to be a junior partner in the oldster's law firm. Therefore last week Nurse Emily Stewart felt a great sense of responsibility as she tended Elihu Root...
...assistants to examine the "dummy" of their April number. The first thing they did was tear out the leading article. It was to be replaced by another article, a mystery article that commanded precedence. Plans were cunningly laid, and when Editor Ray Long entrained for California that night he felt that the secret was left behind him in safe hands...
Deep was the dent made by the collapse of crude rubber prices in the 1928 earnings reports of U. S. tire companies (TIME, Aug. 27). Had January-June deficits been continued into the end of 1928 and 1929, many an Akron executive must have felt it his duty to warn his family that a Spectre loomed not far ahead...
...remarks of the girls themselves upon the matter show how blased this contest will be. They have swept all of the erudition of the newspaper editor to one side with the glorious gesture that, "girls can't be annoyed with him." Saint Anthony himself would have felt chagrined at such a disregard of his charms. If this practice continues, the old fable of the weaker sex will soon enough be regulated to a place among the other nursery rhymes at Detroit University...
...better relationship through gentle pressure upon various governments. But it has been, to date, unable to handle the larger issues satisfactorily. After all, the League Council is the organ of the larger powers and in its discussions the conflicting interests of these powers are bound to make themselves felt. The minorities, at least, are convinced that there is little to be hoped for from the secret pourparlers of the leading statesmen. In 1926 Germany was admitted to the League and given a seat on the Council, and it was expected by the German minorities that Germany would take the lead...