Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surely interest and deficits shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the House of Roosevelt forever...
...detailed account of his wanderings (and Professor Bolton's), with incidental records of Indian rebellions, church intrigue, disputes with provincial authorities. Not a book to be read hastily, it is nevertheless of cumulative interest to readers who enjoy an abundance of facts on which their imaginations can dwell. And industrious Father Kino and Professor Bolton make a pair of travelers whose exploits are likely to remain in the memory long after the book is finished...
Xerxes listed among his vassals "the Ionians that dwell in the Sea and those that dwell beyond the Sea." This indicates that the tablets were written between 485 B. C., when he mounted the throne, and 480 when, bamboozled by Themistocles, he sent his fleet to be soundly whipped by the Greeks at Salamis. After that his empire fell stagnant and he was finally murdered by a vizier...
...built their towns, for purposes of commerce, on the narrow-valleyed rivers which flow east from the Appalachian slopes into the Atlantic, west into the Gulf of Mexico or Great Lakes. Power from these rivers helped make the northern Highlands the great manufacturing region of the U. S., where dwell 28% of the nation's population in 5% of its area. But in many & many a spring the friendly rivers have turned into roaring engines of destruction, wiped out what they had-helped men to build...
...great flaw of free governments has long been declared to dwell in the distortion of public opinion and in the misinformation of consistently biased newspapers. With the gradual development of a kind of rebuttal campaigning like the Smith-Robinson speeches and the proposed Communist vs. Capitalist arguments of Earl Browder and Hamilton Fish, Jr. political bally-hoo is soon likely to be tempered by more intelligent debates. Ready access to the microphone, its far-reaching power and its nation-wide publicity, make calling an opponent's false cards relatively easy and highly effective. Such suggestions as Owen D. Young made...