Word: dweller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Experience. Historic sessions were no novelty for Mr. Churchill. For 37 of his 65 years he has been a member of Parliament, a steady dweller of the eight acres of stone where more good things have been said, and more windy platitudes expounded, than anywhere else on earth-with the possible exceptions of the ancient Roman and present U. S. Senates. Even his greatest admirers admit that he has said more than his share of both. As First Lord of Admiralty he sat on the Government benches on the hushed night of Aug. 3, 1914. Out of the Government after...
...case of war the British Government plans to evacuate as many people-especially mothers and children-from the big cities as possible. Canvassing the countryside recently have been corps of civilian-defense workers taking notes on how many city dwellers could be housed in Britain's farms and country estates. The Government will pay $2.50 a week for board and room for each child. Some owners of the stately homes of England have lately intimated that they were not anxious to have slum children on their properties. A national advisory association for taxpayers has urged its members: "Think...
...House category, it is obvious that at election time a man from this small group will be chosen to represent all the resident non-House students. This is indeed unfortunate, for the Varsity Club man has not the same interests as the typical Apley, Dudley, or Claverly dweller, is not forced to "eat around" as Dean Hanford puts it, and therefore cannot he expected to appreciate the problems of such an existence...
Harvard's fifth robbery in two weeks occurred early yesterday morning when a Lowell House dweller was divested of his wallet, bursar's card, and fountain pan as he slept undisturbed...
...framework of his philosophy is simple: Man, he says, is a product of his environment, and environment is "95% a shelter problem." Nine Chains to the Moon begins with a description of a modern city dweller, the unfortunate Mr. Murphy, jostled in the subway, unnerved by noise, threatened with peptic ulcer, bolting his meals, quarreling with his wife, depressed by the incessant pressure of city noises great and small, bewildered at the contrast between his efficient radio and his inefficient, cockroach-breeding house...