Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard his 17-car train, some of his advisers felt that his scolding and name-calling was far below the standard of dignity for a U.S. President. Some pleaded with him to put his case in more statesmanlike phrases. But the President was determined, it seemed, to keep pouring out invective...
Only one group-64% of the private-school graduates-felt satisfied with the sex education they had received before coming to Colgate. (Walker was undecided whether to credit this attitude to better sex education in private schools-or blame it on "youthful naiveté.") Two older, sadder and presumably wiser groups-married men (100%) and ex-G.I.s (83%) -reported that they had not known enough answers to "meet [their] needs...
...bureau also told how its own methods of measuring literacy had changed. From 1870 to 1930, census takers simply asked whether a person could read & write. Too many illiterates, the bureau felt, were not admitting it. So, in 1940, the bureau asked people only how many years of school they had finished. (If you had completed five, you were "literate"; if not, you weren...
Both heavy and 150 pound crews will be formed this fall. The Varsity will begin fall practice on Friday with the Freshmen following suit Monday. Only Captain Frank Strong, bowman Frank Scully, Don Felt, and Ted Reynolds will be on hand to fill their old slots in the Varsity shell, leaving Coach Bolles the problem of finding a new stroke for the third consecutive year. He must also produce three new oars and a coxswain from last year's jayvee boats...
...Chilean women had seen bills for women's suffrage introduced in Congress, had watched them languish and die. This time they meant business. Led by sleekly coiffured Rosa ("Mitty") Marckmann de González Videla, 41, wife of the President, they determinedly celebrated Women's Suffrage Week, felt sure that a new bill before the Chamber of Deputies would both live and become...