Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy to criticise. But I think some improvement might be made. For example, if Professor Opdyke omitted from his lectures any topics adequately discussed in the reading, he might find that he had more time. And if the lectures dwelt on general characteristics and interrelations, with a few examples discussed at a rate of talk such that the student could look and take notes--why then the student would be interested in the course, and would seek illustrations of lecture material in the assigned reading...
...Seventh Edward were ordered left as they are for the Eighth. George V, when the Royal Mint was preparing to strike his coins, commanded: "Make a big V. I should not like to be mistaken for another George"-the reprehensible characteristics of the first "Four Georges" having been popularly dwelt upon by William Makepeace Thackeray...
Places where all conditions of men dwelt together in squalor, buying favors from corrupt jailers, gambling and carousing with casual visitors, rotting away their characters, were the debtors' prisons of England a century ago. Had not Charles Dickens exposed their evils (David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, etc.), had not the civilized world abolished imprisonment for debt, most citizens of the U. S. might have languished in durance vile during the years of Depression...
More than 8,000 Iowans praised the performance, drove away humming I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...
...Athletic Committee has met and swimming is abolished. Although we are sorry to see swimming removed from the list of winter sports, we are compelled to accept the decision of the Committee as wise. We have long dwelt on the fact that there is no suitable swimming tank in Cambridge and as a result our teams have not been properly trained or conditioned when they have entered contests. It is, furthermore, true that the inadequate facilities necessitate an undue amount of travelling...