Word: overwhelmingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen Overwhelm Dean...
...names made the following news: James Joseph Tunney sent a check for $1,000 to prospective Polar Pilgrim Richard Evelyn Byrd and a telegram: "If the American people knew what you are going to do and the difficulties attending the financing of an expedition of this magnitude, they would overwhelm you. My own check is a very humble indication of my own faith in your purpose...
...many a book; many a book that he has never written now lies in the prolific incubation of notebooks from which they hatch, briefly and pungently, like bright little birds. Author Schnitzler has never visited the U. S. He fears that the fuss and fume of literary idolaters would overwhelm...
...been hard for the public to understand this because some of the central issues in the case turn on important but technical principles of the law of evidence, while the material to, which these principles must be applied is of a kind to arouse strong prejudices which overwhelm the judgment...
...should be made to grow. "Scholastic achievements must be made a part of youth, not youth a part of scholastic achievements." Here undoubtedly he has hit upon a vital point. Since youth is so valuable--and so fleeting--will not scholasticism tend to sap its strength? If allowed to overwhelm youth, it will; in the correct proportion, however, larger intellectual fields will be an aid to the preservation of the first part of life...