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...What is now being done is related to you in detail by Gen. Hines, of the Veterans' bureau, a public official of demonstrated merit, so that I shall not dwell upon it. During the past year, under the distinguished and efficient leadership of Commander Drain, the Legion itself has undertaken to provide an endowment fund of $5,000,000 to minister to the charitable requirements of their comrades...
...barrel, slide down a chute into a wooden bowl, or scare his wits out of himself by a ride on a roller coaster?all by paying a modest admission fee of 50c. Strangely enough over the great amusement hall is built an apartment where the owners of the entertainment dwell, and where they have a little window where they can gaze down upon the antics of the crowd below...
...crashed, canned goods toppled from shelves in the general store at Ossipee, N. H., and court was suspended for five minutes. In neighboring towns folk ran to the streets to hear their old hills rumble. Then, the granite of New England being no more emotional than the people who dwell upon it, . . . they went indoors again...
Until that moment, young Gunn was the protagonist. A clever writer, fashioning a story of that morning's play, would make the reader feel that Gunn was going to win. He would dwell on the amazing machine-like perfection of Gunn's every stroke. He would describe how since Jones was playing par golf, Gunn shot under par to win holes from him. He would hint that Gunn could not keep it up. The reader would gather the conviction that Gunn was most certainly going to keep it up. But this would be a literary trick...
tTokyo's poor dwell on the flats commonly called Lowland, on both sides of the River Sumida...