Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...speaking of the demobilization, Major Heermance dwelt upon the great importance of an honorable discharge from the army. He said, "For the reputation of the unit as well as of the individual men, all men are cautioned to avoid disorder or unbecoming conduct which would at all reflect on the unit or on themselves...
This spirit was repeated by Chancellor Shipley, who in the absence of Sir Henry Jones, of the University of Glasgow, again took the floor. He also dwelt on the value of the pure sciences, such as mathematics. To illustrate this he said that seven years ago he was on a commission to chart the currents at the bottom of the North Sea, an assignment apparently impractical. But in the war the British were able to place their mines, but ahead of the maps made by this commission, so that the mines drifted exactly where they were expected to. He spoke...
There has dwelt in our midst a body of men of whom we all are proud. For four months we have listened to the bugle calls in sombre Holyoke and seen two hundred men stand eternally at attention in front of Widener. We have cheerfully journeyed to Boston to the sound of their "taps" and gone to bed as "reveille" was blown. As we left Cambridge for vacations we saw these cadets trudge by and as we came back they were still trudging. They seemed automatons endlessly marching from class to drill and back again; and, watching them we have...
Columbus Day is the most recent member of our family of legal holidays. Curiously enough, though last established, it commemorates the first event in our history. Tomorrow America is returning Columbus' call though she has dwelt in rather snobbish isolation for the last one hundred and forty years. But she is now making the return call with all possible courtesy...
...declared that this was no time to wonder what to do, but it was a time to act. There were two duties incumbent on all college men: namely, to prepare to be good citizens after the war and to prepare to lead troops on the western front. He dwelt on the wonderful opportunity afforded by the presence of Captain Amann as an instructor in the science of modern warfare and the fact that if no other result was reaped from the courses offered, coming in touch with a man who has actually been on the fighting line was an experience...