Word: dwelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting held last night in the Baker Memorial Library, President Conant welcomed the incoming class of the Harvard Business School. He was preceded in speaking by Dean Donham, who dwelt on the cultural background and social contacts that the tradition and national character of Harvard offer...
...hands shouted in unison to attract the lookout aboard the tanker Phoebus; how Machinist's Mate Rutan weakened and slipped into the sea and Radioman Copeland held on only to die later, while Deal and Metalsmith Moody S. Erwin were rescued. The Committee heard; but their minds dwelt on those snapping girders-an indication that the mighty Akron had buckled in the twisting storm before striking the water. And they thought back to a year ago when two men, E. C. McDonald and W. B. Underwood, onetime construction supervisor and mechanic on the Akron construction job, swore that...
...built its Washington Square college in 1835, four years after N. Y. U.'s founding by a council of 169 prominent men whose first president was Jeflersonian Albert Gallatin. Here once dwelt Artist Winslow Homer, Richard Grant White (father of Stanford White who designed most of the N. Y. U. buildings on the Heights) and many another pioneer Greenwich Villager. Today the Washington Square College is N. Y. U.'s third largest division, with more than 6,600 students, even less clean and corn-fed than the students on the Heights...
...gave columns to the dull doings of State Publishers' Associations convened throughout the land. It reported at length a Columbia University survey showing that most newspaper readers turn first to left-hand pages (for the obvious reason that right-hand pages are usually filled with advertising). The Press dwelt lovingly on a speech by Undersecretary of State Castle praising Washington correspondents. But the Press found no news in a $54,200 libel verdict against William...
Dwelling, as their forbears have dwelt for centuries in the fertile, balmy Kuban adjoining the Black Sea, the 46,000 Cossacks farmed a rich area around four towns: Poltavskaya, Medvyedevsky, Urupskaya, Umanskaya. They may or may not have tried to grow & deliver as much grain as the Five-Year Planners thought they should. Last week with no exception every Cossack man, woman and child in the area was bundled off "to work near the Arctic Circle" in unspecified mines and lumber camps...