Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bull Moosers. The best try was made by the Progressives of 1912. Ex-President Teddy Roosevelt thought better of his resolution not to seek a third term, unlimbered his big stick and set out after the scalp of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. Declaring that he "felt like a bull moose," Roosevelt shrilly attacked "moneyed privilege" and "special interests," polled 4,126,020 popular and 88 electoral votes to Taft's 3,483,922 popular and eight electoral. But Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with a popular vote of 6,286,214-less than Taft and Roosevelt combined-walked...
...Meeting with History." In London crowds trudged through a cold drizzle to Watch Night services at St. Paul's. Piccadilly Circus was crowded and almost as gay as ever. Britons felt in their bones that somehow 1948 would be better than 1947, but nobody promised them anything. The Manchester Guardian advised its readers to "expect a meeting with history some time this year...
...year collaboration with his famous pupil, Bertrand Russell, Whitehead wrote the monumental Principia Mathematica (1910). This book approached mathematics not as a science of magnitude but as a science of deduction; it undertook to replace two existing sciences-logic and mathematics-by one new science, mathematical logic. Because Whitehead felt that "conventional English is the twin sister to barren thought" and that words are coated with ambiguities, he developed a language of mathematical symbols to express logical truths. This kept the Principia off bestseller lists, but not off the St. John's list of the 100 Great Books...
...extension was given since it was felt that the three days alloted for registration in December were insufficient...
...immediate hindrance--a lack of practice during the Yule layoff--is something which will be felt in the next two weeks. Several coming opponents, local high schools, have been able to keep in shape during Christmas, while many of the Crimson skaters will have to begin from scratch in working again into condition...