Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long after the meeting, an FBI man (one of several who has frequent business in Yale's physics laboratory) stopped in to see Professor Margenau...
...Gump's got its Oriental flavor by an act of God. The store was founded during the Civil War by Solomon Gump, son of a Heidelberg linen merchant, who found gaudy, gold-crazy San Francisco too exciting to leave. He began making mirrors for saloons, and thanks to frequent gunplay, got plenty of profitable repeat business. He branched out and began furnishing the homes of California's new millionaires with Victorian-era "art treasures" from Europe...
...discoveries and new editions, but neither changes in literary fashions nor new research have reduced Emerson's stature in the slightest; he grows more impressive, in his unassuming serenity, as more is known about him. He is as eloquent as Herman Melville but without Melville's frequent posturing and bombast, as civilized as Henry James but without James's mannerisms, as imaginative as Poe but without Poe's melodrama, as just as Hawthorne at his best. His phrases, like Shakespeare's, have become part of the language...
...usual during reading period, there has been an increase in the number of bookhogs who hide hard-to-get volumes on obscure shelves or build up private stacks in booths about the building. The library hopes to curb them by frequent checks of shelves and reading rooms, McNiff said...
...good bit of the trouble with 'Briton Hadden' is in its style. Busch is a senior editor on 'Life,' and he writes with all the brightness and clarity that go along with the frequent superficiality of that magazine's prose. There is a tremendous difference between the apparently effortless writing of a real stylist and the glibness that characterizes this book. And Busch's thinking is as glib as are his sentences. He deals more in notions than in ideas; and his book is a sketch, not a biography...