Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council decided some time ago that students in residence were to be protected from such solicitations and have made that one of the strong selling points of the Service Fund Drive. The Council has felt for a number of years that more money can be raised for individual charities through an efficient Service Fund Drive than through ten or twelve individual campaigns. In return for this, the student body should be protected from further solicitations. However, the Council has no power to forbid any group to use the mails; this is a case in point. Ray A. Goldberg, Harvard Student...
...social outcast. No Amish cobbler would fix his shoes. Even his brother Dan could not eat with him. When he was out threshing, he had to take his meals in barns or cellars-alone. Said he: "It was like feeding the dog out of a dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs. of his chin...
...that might have shielded shabby workers from the biting winter was daubed with likenesses of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and minor Soviet gods, and hung on buildings. Materials and labor skills which could have made houses everyone needed were used to construct gay, quaint booths for tea street fairs, where felt-booted citizens who tired of street dancing in the light November slush could buy (at fantastic prices) champagne, vodka, soda pop, bread and sausage. Truck-borne roving players mimed and capered on eleven bunting-draped stages in public squares. Fifty-three bands washed the Kremlin's golden domes with...
...show. Potatoes themselves, the No. 1 staple in the British diet, were rationed-three pounds per week per Briton. "If we'd done nothing," said Food Minister John Strachey, "some time in the spring potatoes would have run out, which would have been a catastrophe." Some British housewives felt the catastrophe had happened. "Many of my customers," said Brixton Greengrocer George Kingston, "went away crying when they saw their three-pound ration...
...Francis Lyte. All his life long the gentle English Methodist had hoped to leave something behind him to testify to the glory of God. Though his books of poems* were well enough received, Lyte feared that they would not long survive him. In 1847, when he was 54, he felt that his life was almost over. Consumption and asthma, from which he had suffered for more than half his years, would not leave him much more time...