Word: pored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...library was a matter of envy; and in the long absences of her husband, Mistress Anne, being a "goodly young woman of special parts," was quick to 'sconce herself in the deep chairs and seek companionship in that cozy den. Too long however did the small head pore and ponder, for shortly, as one learns there befell "a sad infirmity, the loss of understanding and reason, which had been growing on her by occasion of giving herself wholly to reading...
...pretty well saturated in these things at home, and the scholarship system encourages it in the school. The interest has been built up so well that it can be trusted to nourish itself. The English undergraduate is infinitely better prepared for labor problems by drinking in politics at every pore than is his American equivalent by a course in American National Problems. English families sometimes cat and sleep politics, American families tend to be bored by them. I do not mean to say that the English undergraduate is really well prepared for labor problems, I only say that...