Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument for abolishing capital punishment on the barbarous civilization which requires an eye for an eye and a death for a death. Metzdorf traced the evolution of punishment from the days when death was administered for all crimes to the present, when it is imposed for only three. He dwelt on these three, murder, treason and rape, with great forces showing how it is merely vengeance which calls for the death of the offender...
...principal fact upon which Professor Kohler dwelt was the new view of psychology which his research has given him. "In the field of animal psychology," he declared, "altogether too much emphasis is laid on the subjective side of the work. The experimenter too often tries to prove the inferiority of brute intelligence. What science wants is an objective estimate of the standards of animal intelligence...
Lord Balfour spoke in his best Eton and Cambridge manner, dwelt upon the significance of the event in which all were participating and which had brought people from all the earth's cubbyholes. He touched briefly on the history of the surrounding sights and asseverated: "A new epoch has begun within the Palestine which came to an end so many hundred years ago." There followed some remarks on the idea of a Western University run on Western methods in an Eastern country and upon the beauty but questionable utility of the Hebrew language with which the Earl professed himself unacquainted...
...Premier Ramsay MacDonald, Sir Alfred Mond and Viscountess Astor followed. The first dwelt on the psychological effects of the Singapore base on the Japanese; the second called the naval estimates a sham; the third thought that the Army and the Navy should be strong enough to secure peace...
...main facts which the Marshal dwelt upon in his eleven-page summary of the 380-page report of the Military Commission were...