Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be ice-cold in the winter and torrid in summer; and it is imperative that he rise every morning at four A. M. to remove the ashes form a half-dozen professorial furnaces. Chemistry 14b must be elected as often as possible, in order that his biographer may dwell on the painful journeys to 7.45 classes. And at least once in his strenuous college career he must attempt, unsuccessfully, to reform an institution which can be magnified into a symbol of capitalistic dominance. If this scheme is rigidly adhered to, it appears probable that attendance at Harvard will promote...
Except the Council itself? Horrible thought--yet to dwell on it is to realize that most of the above is a lie, for it deals with the past, not with the present. In the mirror of their acts are seen the characteristics of former Councils, but while a mirror shows too well the ravages of the past if shows nothing of the future, for it takes no account of the possibilities of change within...
Among the most apposite remarks Mr. Price made are those on religion. The relations of the British Crown, as the greatest Mohammedan Power on earth, with India while fighting Mohammedan Turkey are summed up: "One sometimes wonders, on that exalted plane on which Sovereigns dwell, what the Emperor of India has been saying to the Defender of the Faith...
...perpetrators argue that the picture will be a club to beat back the rising trade in dope. Horror stares from the club, from handle to head. Yet horror and fear are ineffective deterrents because they dwell in the back of the mind, while material temptation stares directly in the eyes
...come back " of Jess Willard, the shutting out of the Giants by decrepit, old Babe Adams, and a few other prodigies of belligerent age have featured sufficiently in newspaper philosophizings to make it stale and unprofitable to dwell upon any subject in which a man mocks at his years and refuses to succumb to them. However, here is an instance of hale antiquity found in a world quite different from that of sports. A small musical item from Connecticut relates that one of the tenors with an opera troupe playing in Stamford is Giuseppe Agostini. Now, Agostini...