Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bookworm himself, who was happiest poking about his own stacks, Jacobs didn't think New Orleans read enough. In 1946, he found, only about 43,000 citizens in a city of 600,000 held library cards. He felt ashamed every time he was reminded that Louisiana had the highest illiteracy rate...
Editor Carter, of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, was brought into the act by the Providence Journal. It had carried the Sprigle series (along with 13 other Northern papers), and felt that its readers had a right to hear from the defense. Carter wrote a six-part series called "Jim Crow's Other Side," which was offered last week to papers which syndicated Sprigle...
...last year knew what Dr. Gelfan meant: at 19,000 feet, the astrodome had blown off, and with the release of the inside pressure the navigator had been shot out after it. Had the plane not been brought down quickly to a lower altitude, the passengers would soon have felt wobbly, slightly drunk, and would have lost consciousness in a few minutes. At 20,000 feet the pressure can be restored merely by diving, but at 40,000 feet an oxygen mask is needed. Above 52,000 feet, a new problem comes...
Charles A. Lindbergh "grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines." But in the last decade Charles Lindbergh has "seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve . . . We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow . . . Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians...
...Score: forty-love. Smith at 51 [see cut] is about to cross over to serve to me (at P). When Smith gets to a point (K) not less than one foot and not more than two feet beyond the center of the court (I know now what I only felt then-that timing is everything in this gambit), Joad (standing at J2) called across the net, in an even tone...