Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subsequent state convention which ratified the constitution thoroughly discussed this question and therefore it was the best system theoretically that could have been adopted. The four years term is not a perfect system but it is better than any other scheme already proposed. He then dwelt on the educational advantages to the people of frequent campaigns and pointed out the opportunities for corruption which a long term of office would offer to incompetent or unprincipled occupants...
...Copeland dwelt briefly on Hawthorne and Thoreau, and then gave an account of a visit to Concord a year ago. The old Manse is, to his thinking, the most impressive object in Concord, and among many things which every American would care to see, the speaker described French's bronze statue of the Minute Man, and the simply commemorated graves of Emerson and Hawthorne...
...Cook of Natick lectured last evening on "The Relation of the Medical Profession to Certain Social Conditions." He dwelt on the part which physicians can and should play in educating popular opinion concerning disease. By this means, instead of merely attempting to put right what social conditions have made wrong, the medical profession can strike at the root of the evil by putting right the social conditions themselves...
...Lawrence 1 last evening to consider the advisability of forming a gymnastic association. Professor Shaler was made chairman of the meeting, and W. F. Garcelon, secretary. Dr. Sargent spoke first, showing how, with the development of competitive sports and light gynastics, interest in heavy gymnastics has steadily decreased. He dwelt on the benefits of hard, regular gymnasium work, and outlined the plan of a gymnastic association - an organization made up of several teams, which would contest at public meetings...
...with detailed sensational stories in which a reporter indulges to fill space or to catch the attention of scandal-lovers. If anything of an unpleasant nature happens in the University, it should be allowed to pass unnoticed by the outside public, or if noticed, should at least not be dwelt upon in exaggerated detail for the benefit of those whom it in no way concerns. That part of the reading public which demands sensation, could, it would seem, be amply supplied from other sources without encroaching on the bounds of college life. The reputation of the University is affected, however...