Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Promising Juniors include Harry Baker, captain of his Freshman team, Doug Cochrane, and Bill Farthingham. From the 1943 Yardling powerhouse which captured the state's "C" league crown and swamped Yale 4 to 1, comes Captain Sandy Parker, Decker Orr, Gaelen Felt, George Clay, and Dudley Palmer...
...this moment the peace societies are working on the cause of war; economic inequilibrium. The guts of America stink with the putrefaction of the slums and the sharecroppers and the unemployed. President Roosevelt smelled it, felt himself powerless in the face of passive reactionary opposition, and interested the nation in foreign affairs. The effect was good. Americans forgot their own disordered houses in their scurry to see the other fellow's mess. Mussolini and Hitler resorted to the same stunt when they felt themselves powerless. A militarist nation lasts for a few years and dies; the spirit of religion...
...Theory of Relativity, a beautiful theoretical concept but, after all, just a theory. Yet the Relativity mathematics was found to predict a shift of Mercury's orbit which was practically the same as the observed shift. This was the first observational prop for Relativity.* So Einstein may have felt a nostalgic glow last week, if anyone remembered to tell him that Mercury was transiting (passing directly between the sun and the earth...
...Roberts on her knee, tell him bedtime stories about Indian massacres-burning villages, murdered and mutilated men; women and little children trudging through the deep snow and the dark forests to Montreal while their captors, with scalps dangling and dripping at their belts, knocked on the head anybody who felt tired...
When Ernest Thompson Seton was a wee bairn in the North of England, his sympathies were not with Little Red Ridinghood but with the wolf. "I felt that his case was not properly presented; he acted strictly within the law, and on each occasion he got a very raw deal." When he was 31, his painting of a wolf crunching a human skull was tossed out of the Grand Salon in Paris with cries of "Horrible! In sympathy with the beast ! " Following year, in New Mexico, he resolved to stop poisoning cattle-slaying wolves. "What right. I asked...