Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cranks in greater force abound...
...unable to find employment. Certainly these men, older and more competent masters of their field, and with no further class or thesis work of their own, are more logical choices than mere candidates. The fact that in many cases their needs are acute, and that they abound in discouraging numbers, indicates that they would be equally cheap labor. Those graduate students whom they would displace might secure aid through correcting papers or proctoring, duties less arduous and less responsible. There is surely no reason why this anomalous situation should be allowed to persist...
Quiet, well-dressed Sculptor Poisson, 45, is one of those conscientious, undistinguished artists who abound in every country and whom only politicians seem to know. Art dealers know him only as a man who has done many a job for the government and as a friend of the great French sculptor, Charles Despiau. Commenting last week on the new and old Mariannes, the French weekly Vu wrote...
...Leon Conwell announced he would revive this lecture which tells of a man who roamed the world looking for diamonds he dreamed of, died without knowing that they existed in his own garden. It contains quotations from the Bible, Grant, Garfield, Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson and a Mr. Bailey. Solemnities abound like these: "He is an enemy to his country who sets Capital against Labor. . . . Even if a rich man's son retains his father's money he cannot know the best things in life. . . . We must know what the world needs first and then invest ourselves to supply...
Before the invention of printing lectures were the chief means of conveying factual knowledge. Today, when books of every sort abound, there is no longer need for a "transfer of material from the professor's notebook to the student's, without its passing through the mind of either." Lectures which are little more than an oral correspondence course have no place in the college...