Word: copious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copious handkerchief blotted the eyes and wiped the cheeks of a portly man in the Senate Chamber of Indiana one day last week, after Lieut. Governor Van Orman had informed the portly one that he had been found innocent of high improprieties. The margin of innocence was two votes. A majority of the Senators voted guilty but two-thirds were needed to convict. The portly one was Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, against whom the weekly Post-Democrat of his home town had loudly protested for alleged jury-packing and interference with freedom of the press (TIME, April...
...Woodward's story is by all odds her manner of depicting people. In the first place she observed them carefully. In the second, perhaps because she herself came from the environment of poverty, she tried to see them in their respective environments. In the third place, she narrates copious anecdotes with an evident zest. From the tyrannical Mrs. Johnson who played the lady of better days with tempestuous zeal before her awestricken secretary to the down-hearted young man who found his salvation in the little known occupation, of goldfish expert, many odd and enticing characters flood the pages. There...
...wealth of his country, 89 billions of dollars in 1900, has more than trebled since. Some Croesus power has magically turned a five billion dollar debt into a present credit of sixteen billions. The industrial majesty thus won sweeps swiftly down a prolific path of production, invention, and copious remodeling. New attachments, parts, and styles are flooding the twentieth century triumphs, the automobile, the aeroplane the radio, the motion picture...
...which occurs widely in nature and is a common inhabitant of the mouth. It may also cause bronchopneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, and septicemia. It gives out a very strong toxin, which the kidneys eliminate wth frequent damage to themselves. The germ induces in the lungs, in lobar pneumonia especially, a copious exudation of protective serum. Then come the polymorphonuclear (of many-shaped nuclei) leucocytes, which surround the invading germs and eat them (phagocytosis...
...yesterday's issue of the Alumni Bulletin appears the report of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, which is printed below in part. Besides a full statement of its athletic and financial policies, the report contains a copious appendix in which the Intercollegiate Conference Rules are printed, and wherein a complete account of the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton agreement is also to be found...