Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan '17, chairman of the Committee on the Harvard Fund for the Harvard Club of Michigan, has in his letter the following paragraph...
Dabbling in Pascal* the other day, I ran across a few lines that recalled strikingly a paragraph you published under SCIENCE some nine months ago: "But to exhibit to him another wonder quite as amazing, let him examine the most minute things he knows. . . . Dividing these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only...
Michael Arlen's "The Dancer of Paris" is at the Metropolitan. Conway Tearle supports Dorothy Mackaill. And that is that or more. Anyway for so and so many minutes close up follows close up and paragraph, inane and sententious as only Arlen can be, follows paragraph, while people turn each to each and both to both and coyly say, "Typically Arlen." Which may or may not mean anything...
Your April 26 number [TIME, April 26, p. 9] razzes me amiably for attributed idiotic remarks about the U. S. Government. The misquotation started in the properly esteemed Baltimore Sun, and was the first paragraph of a modest and orthodox exhortation to civic duties, which as actually spoken ran thus: "Democratic representative government, such as we have in the U. S., is the most inefficient type of government in the world"; (re executive) "our forefathers, dreading Star Chamber methods, created an executive with too little power and too short a term of office to oppress the people"?100% grammar...
...this radical departure, the CRIMSON was said to be "hazarding" an enterprise which was termed as "extraordinary" with an exclamation point. One editorial in its opening paragraph enlightened its readers that the CRIMSON had not perpetrated a joke, but rather was "intensely in earnest...