Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearer to the Threshold. It is not likely, Professor Steere notes dryly, that the situation will be remedied by a "representative committee on Protestant symbols." "Only those who have felt the central fire of the molten sun can capture its radiance in symbols that will focus the longing of others. It will come out of deeply moved souls who have felt and known our need, our poverty...
...this week, with her show not yet a month old, Carol Channing's sudden fame was making itself felt in every tributary alley along the main stem. Newspaper columnists and Sunday feature writers were peppering their columns with "items," and plaguing the new celebrity with requests for interviews at the rate of three a day. Anita Loos was planning a new show for her, and so was Joshua Logan. There were plans afoot to star her in a radio program and a television show. There were offers from Hollywood and blueprints for a Blondes comic strip and a Lorelei...
...Zealand's wiry, curly-haired trackman, who set world's records in the '30s, came to Manhattan two years ago to specialize in crippling diseases; in an accidental fall before a subway train shortly after telling friends he felt ill; in Brooklyn. Lovelock's world's records, all since surpassed: in 1932, a ¾mile in 3 min. 2.2 sec.; in 1933, a mile in 4 min. 7.6 sec.; in 1936, before Adolf Hitler and 100,000 others at the Berlin Olympics, the 1,500-meter...
...early months of 1949, in the mid-continent city of Indianapolis, Mrs. Irene Horn, a housewife, felt frightened of the future. She "just had a sort of fear." The fear was so great that she was saving every nickel, buying only bare necessities, and praying for prices to come down. By year's end, Mrs. Horn's fears had vanished. She and her husband had bought a farm in Ohio, and the future looked rosy. As she looked out over her 30 acres, her well-filled bins and fat cattle, she said: "I think things are pretty steady...
Thus, when recession-minded merchants felt the first touch of sales resistance, they canceled orders and started to live off inventories, lest they be caught in a slump. But sales slipped only 5% in the firs? six months. Since production dropped more than three times as fast, the U.S. was soon using up far more than it was producing. Then deep price cuts in such big consumer items as clothing brought even the most reluctant customers hustling back with wallets in hand. On top of that, consumption got a few healthy midyear boosts...