Word: abound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having been a sometime resident of Eton and Windsor, and having come to own an affection for the legend and tradition which abound on both the Eton and Windsor sides of the Thames . . . I resent, sir, the present Duke of Wellington's contention that his forebear did not remark that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton" [TIME...
...have everything. We abound with all of the things that make us comfortable. We are, on the average, rich beyond the dreams of the kings...
Celebrities Abound...
World famous research professors abound in the department. A lot of them are good lecturers, too, William H. Weston is rated tops. Kenneth V. Thimann, Frederick L. Hisaw, Alfred S. Romer, and George Wald all win praise for interesting well-planned courses...
...commodore's difficulties are complicated by the shoals of odd fish that abound in even so small a puddle as Farbridge. There are "fierce, gay anarchists," mothers of prodigies, blustering M.P.s, professional yokels, degenerate nobility, gumshoes in broom closets, harridans in cholers, blond giants with Chinese grandmothers, hard-faced Communists who gnaw rock-cakes at their meetings; in all, as fair a mess of stage Englishmen as have recently been caught in one volume...