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Word: confluent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between teaching and scholarship there is in principle no confluent whatever, since teaching is a manifestation of scholarship, and scholarship a condition of teaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highlights from the Tenure Report | 3/31/1939 | See Source »

...desert. His plodding columns closed in from north, east and southeast like beaters in a lion hunt. On the south and southwest, crack Legion regiments waited for the prey to enter the trap. Slowly, suspiciously, the Berbers, carrying their women and children, rode into the mountains up four confluent valleys a year ago last spring. The trap was sprung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lion Trap | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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