Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidently written by somebodies or nobodies who are anxious to get in the spotlight by using belittling descriptions, large and unfamiliar words, and other such silly devices. There are some good points in the magazine, also some excellent pieces of writing in spots, but the trivial and inconsequential are dwelt upon at such great length that they leave a bad taste. I do not have a great deal of time for reading and prefer to devote that time to magazines on the order of World's Work, Golden Book and the National Geographic, in which one receives full value...
...Dispersed into the lobbies as Lord Weir dwelt lugubriously on unemployment, pointing out that, whereas 7.8% was the greatest unemployment figure prior to the War, no less than 13.4% or 2,500,000 are now dependent upon poor law relief...
...radium, there would be a grand democracy of matter in which the homeliest substances would lie ready to perform potent miracles. It would be something for nothing with a vengeance. In his presidential address, Dr. James F. Norris of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Society's chief, dwelt upon this subject most optimistically. The initial energy required to alter atomic arrangements and in so doing release new energy of high intensity has been found in the X-ray tube. Synthetic fuels and lighting gases might be but one result, on a modest scale. Sugar from formaldehyde is already...
...last week at the Gare du Lyons, Paris. In puffed a train. Out jumped a man both lean and spry. While porters panted, he sprinted with M. Rousseau for the latter's limousine, distanced newsgatherers, photographers. Then for a few days Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury dwelt on the ancient Ile St. Louis, hard by Notre Dame, surrounded by the muddy Seine, ensconced at the venerable and opulent mansion of M. Rousseau whom the Secretary is said to address as "Teddy...
...house, built half a century ago, stands far back from the street, masked by huge trees. There memories foregather. There Charles S. Stratton, exploited by P. T. Barnum as "General Tom Thumb," dwelt with his wife, that delectable midget, the onetime Lavinia Warren...