Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen had plenty to worry him: Russia, prices, the fear of a depression and the damned atom hung like grey fog just in back of his everyday thoughts. But when he got into his car and hit the highway on a warm spring day he felt no pain...
...found a way to sterilize the blood and kill the virus without making the blood harmful or useless. They have used nitrogen mustard, a war gas, and are now experimenting with a chemical called dimethyl sulphate. To prove the process safe, Dr. Hartman subjected himself to three transfusions. He felt all right afterward. Then he gave sterilized plasma to several hundred patients; none got jaundice (untreated blood that contains the virus causes jaundice in 5% to 7% of patients...
Nora also has a new fan. Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...
Renewed Faith. Without stopping the show, Farrell gradually had the whole thing restaged, scene by scene. Heartened by letters from some of his customers, he asked the reviewers to come back and take another look. Three of them felt up to it, but the verdict came out just about the same. At losses ranging from $15,000 to $23,000 a week, Farrell, who has watched almost every one of the 100 performances, stuck to his conviction that his show was the best musical on Broadway. As a visitor to Manhattan, he has seen every musical since 1914. Rich...
...when Father Feeney became the center's spiritual director seven years ago, it soon began to grow into a full-dress academic institution, teaching Greek, church history, philosophy, literature and hagiography. More than 200 students were converted to Catholicism there, and 103 members and guests of the club felt called to become priests or nuns. This year, 50 members, about 20 of them converts, paid $200 a semester. Four nights a week about 200 other students attended evening lectures...