Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excuse of inability to have strong departments in everything, the University has eliminated a field which was fast becoming a strong department under the guidance of extremely capable men. There is no question but that the expense would increase a the Department enlarged. However, the loss will be felt beyond the immediate field itself: in the specialized fields of area studies Education course. Human geography was, perhaps, a luxury when it was first introduced at the University 25 years ago. It is an absolute necessity now, as indispensable as government or history, when almost everyone has come to realize...
...Then they hit on Pierpont. The new head, a University of Richmond graduate (he flunked out of Johns Hopkins), was a headmaster of the lower form at a Baltimore school, later bossed a World War II Navy school. The first time he saw Avon Old Farms, he said, "I felt as if I had walked into the middle of a Charles Addams cartoon...
...staffers, the bad news came in little white envelopes last week: ". . . your employment with PM will terminate . .. March 26, 1948." After months of rumors, few felt surprised when Marshall Field's experiment in Manhattan journalism came...
...stops. Their candidate was young, chubby, glad-handing Frederic Walter Harris, a successful businessman (food products). His slogan: 'The thing to do to industry is to humanize it, not nationalize it." He kept the number of his own employees down to 700; above that figure he felt that the human touch was lost...
Behind the new proposal is a continuous financial pressure which has been felt by Radcliffe extracurricular organizations, especially in the last few years...