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Word: engulf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remote and unthreatening hazard. What is of great and immediate importance is University Hall's record of grades. Tutorial work is therefore naturally the first to suffer when a student finds himself pressed for time, and that is always. The drowning sailor thinks of the wave which threatens to engulf him at the moment, not of one which may do so two, three, or four hours hence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KING GRADE | 2/17/1925 | See Source »

...brightest and purest lights in the political arena, and during the turmoil and strife of war we maintained and kept the faith of pure and unadulterated democracy. The old party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked for aid, and it is to the everlasting credit of the Republican Party that one of its Presidents saw the evil and came to our assistance. . . . I ask my colleague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Suppressed | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...marks the end of the policy of raising loans to meet normal charges- a policy which threatens to engulf France in financial quicksands. Once the deficits due to previous budgets have been regulated by a loan of liquidation, any appeal to the national thrift must have but one object-consolidation of the floating debt and completion of the restoration of the devastated region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Budget | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...Expressed belief "in the gospel of the Son of God as our one hope of deliverance from the greed, lust and anarchy with which a resurgent paganism threatens to engulf civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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