Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strangely partial. It leaves out of all account what the farmer earned during 1915-1920, under very high prices for farm produce and reasonable labor and other costs. It omits all his profits from land speculation, except to charge their resultant losses against 1920-1922 earnings. Nor does it dwell upon present high prices for grain and cotton...
...suppression of the illicit traffic in soul-destroying drugs. We shall conserve all the natural resources of the country and prevent the hand of monopoly from closing on them and on our water powers, so that our children after us shall find this still a fair land to dwell within. And to the veterans of our wars, especially to those who were stricken and wounded in the country's service and whose confidence has been so cruelly and corruptly abused, we shall give, in honor and in honesty, the grateful care they have so justly earned...
Here would dwell the models of inventions, once revolutionary, now antiquated. Here the First Cause of street cars, steamboats, telephones could be seen. "In this way the U. S. will be given the kind of institution which all the great European nations have possessed for years...
...argumentation, it is puerile to dwell on exceptions, they prove nothing and get one nowhere. No movement for the betterment of society has been able to escape the overt acts of simple-minded fanatics. Merely because of the actions of the militant suffragettes is it to be maintained that woman suffrage is bad and was brought about by low-down methods? If it is not, then how can any self respecting person with a college trained mind maintain that prohibition was put over on the people by illegal methods because of the acts of the "hatchet-bearing females...
...words: "to make us rejoice anew that we are citizens and dwellers in so great and so happy a land." Unfortunately, there are many things in our past and contemporary history which might mar this bit of idealism. But it is not expected that the author dwell on these events when addressing primarily the young and newly naturalized American. Although Professor Hart leaves one with the impression that our history is a resultant of popular forces mainly, the significance of personal leadership in our history is very strongly emphasized by frequent panegyrical sketches of our "beacon lights." In the brief...