Word: dwell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same applies to portraying the Soviet Army and the Russian people. It is quite natural that in wartime a patriotic writer is moved mainly by the people's courage, their heroism and their scorn of death. He is far less prone to dwell on other emotions which unquestionably do exist in people's hearts - on such feelings as a longing for home, on man's natural fear in the face of peril, on bodily fatigue and depressing thoughts...
...relationship between the solar system in which we dwell and the rest of our universe is similar to that of a wheel placed in a sphere, stated Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, in his recent Sigma Xi talk...
...means all Friends agreed. Some Quakers felt an urgent need to dwell deep upon the teachings of George Fox and other weighty Friends. Some feared that the more Quakers became a force in the world the less they would exert that power which few Quakers would care to express in words, but of which Robert Barclay once wrote: "When I came into the silent assemblies of God's people, I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it, I found the evil weakening in me, and the good raised...
Wadsworth is also one of the University's oldest buildings. A manuscript of President Wadsworth reads: "The President's house to dwell in was raised May 24, 1726. No life was lost, no person hurt in raising it...In ye Evening, those who raised ye House had Supper in Ye Hall; after which we sang ye first stave or staff in ye 127 Psalm...
...planners whose eyes dwell too much on the far horizons of things must be balanced by those who, in the American phrase, "keep their eye on the ball." The ball in this instance is postwar employment-or unemployment. And currently the keenest sight on that ball is being stimulated by the Committee for Economic Development...