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Word: clamant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wholly bad thing. . . . God is ... putting to us a searching question. Money can be found in any quantities to discharge shells gratis to the enemy; shall we again be fobbed off with the plea of poverty when the more modest demands of social decency again become clamant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Is Doing | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...will be good getting down today. It will be good when the detraining mob in North Station starts singing "Dartmouth's in Town Again." It will be good to hear the long clamant wave of sound that will climax the kickoff and to hear the blunt barking roar that greets a touchdown. The crowd at a football game is always two teased Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer lions. It will be good for a man to feel himself part of all the color, of all the good nature, of all, the expectant enthusiasm. It will be excellent to watch The Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vox Clamantis in Deserto | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...liked the house libraries: one of them in every house, as intimate as the Christopher Wren room in Sanborn, but much larger, and containing every conceivable book for pleasurable perusal or routine research. We liked the tall-ceilinged fire-lit library in Eliot House, and the clamant Crimson library in Standish, and the goldleaf and wrought iron of Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mystic Dandruff | 11/12/1931 | See Source »

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