Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely while others have of necessity been confined to the summer or fall or spring semesters. But the green-bound pages, in more optimistic aspect, furnish concrete evidence that too many tears have been shed prematurely over the bier of Harvard's liberal tradition. Courses in the humanities still abound, with even unlooked-for additions...
...Errors Abound...
...dangers of this belief, says Dr. Niebuhr, are threefold: 1) to believe that nothing is perfect tempts man to become defeatist toward culture and politics; 2) the frivolous are tempted to "sin that grace may abound," and 3) the rich and powerful are tempted to believe that God has ordained social inequalities...
Stories. Tales about Mihailovich, apocryphal or smuggled out of his mountains, abound in Yugoslav circles. It is said that he has done some of his own espionage, eating with German officers in a tavern where the host, devoted to him, was panicky with fright. Nazi officers are said to have driven up to a farmhouse where Mihailovich and friends were staying. When he had convinced the Nazis of his innocence, one of his friends remarked: "That was a close one." Mihailovich replied: "It was close for them, too." He pointed to a bush behind which a guerrilla machine-gun crew...
...main virtue of "The Lady Has Plans" is that while Nazi spies, hidden blueprints and intrigue abound throughout, they are at all times kept subservient to the main aim of being amusing. The result is a lightweight comedy which has Lisbon and the war as a background but no pretensions to social significance. It is, in fact, concerned mainly with the attempts of various espionage agents to uncover Paulette Goddard's back. They think she is a certain woman spy who has had U. S. naval blueprints tattooed on her back, and they spend a good deal of the picture...