Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easiest path. There is some question whether this National Council, headed by Miss Center, is the best arbiter of usage; Miss Center herself unwittingly exposes an ignorance of the etymology of English by branding the phrase "go slow" as traditionally ungrammatical. As for "integrating and directing," even those who dwell in cloistered academic security are able to say that English teachers would have their time pretty well occupied if they attempted to remove the more glaring solecisms and grating mistakes of their charges...
...extending his white jade scepter while brigades of mandarins bowed in batches. According to Imperial Chinese etiquet, now observed exclusively at the Court of Annam, "no man's eyes may rest upon the Emperor enthroned, no woman may be in the Throne Room and the Emperor's eyes must dwell motionless upon utter vacancy as his mind is filled with the August Thoughts...
...Vagabond has always been a sensitive soul, disliking abrupt contrasts. The annual transition from vacation to college jars his equilibrium, and the divine aflatus is wanting. Besides, when one has to come a week in advance, and dwell in the midst of the desert that is Harvard before registration . . . . The rising splendor of Memorial Chapel, and Eliot House blossoming forth with its new shrubbery, are not enough. The great days are still vivid, and what is to come is yet unsure. The Vagabond greets his clan, and asks their indulgence for another day. Perhaps the spectacle of the incoming Freshmen...
...Plain Talk, is named Brass Tacks. The other is National Spotlight, published by George T. Delacorte Jr., edited by muckraking Walter W. Liggett, onetime editor of Plain Talk. Apparently on the theory that the reading public is like a sick man who enjoys talk about his ailments, both magazines dwell lingeringly upon the nation's ills...
Thus once again flared up the everlasting issue provided by Belgians who dwell near the Dutch frontier, speak Flemish and support secessionist movements. During the War, Allied censorship and propaganda concealed from U. S. citizens the existence in Belgium of a Flemish public opinion which disapproved completely of fighting Germany. Today in their great city of Antwerp, fourth largest port in Europe, portly Flemish merchants often shock U. S. exporters by talking like this...