Word: felted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Working under Phillips was something of an experience. According to Ellsworth Young, the present owner, "the store ran more on inspiration than system." For instance, Phillips had a fabulous memory for where he had put his books, and consequently felt no need for keeping them in any particular order on the shelves. The resulting jumble caused his assistants no end of trouble. Phillips also was as much concerned with having people interested in his books as he was with making sales. He would go to any length to turn up a particular edition of Dostoevski or an out-of-print...
...extremely desirable both as a means of establishing friendly contact between Universities and as a means of comparing the caliber of football played in different leagues. People of this opinion, as opposed to those who thought that as far as Harvard was concerned inter-sectional football was "pure suicide", felt that Harvard was over-hasty in abolishing this phase of the game merely on the basis of what happened against Stanford this fall...
Those who felt they had profited intellectually in college said they had "learned to think critically," acquired "intellectual curiosity," "a thirst for knowledge," and "a rich background of information...
...Some felt that it ill behooved Bingham to criticize the members of a team which had spent over 220 hours of practice time, including the whole month of September, on Soldiers Field, and which made a considerable financial contribution to the H.A.A. through its efforts. After all, none were being paid, or even subsidized, and it was all purely voluntary work...
...Theatre at 31 Hemmenway Street, would have reveled in "Music and Dances of India," brought to occidental footlights by Lakshimi Wana Singh. Those debutantes, patrons of the beaux arts, and bullied husbands of ripening patronesses who answered muster at the opening offering of the newly-formed Boston Dance Society felt slightly confused, like this reviewer, but on the whole pleased by this curtain raiser of the New Boston Dance Society...