Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement to the Overseers, containing remarks on his policy, other than those pertaining to athletics, no less pregnant with significance...
Reviving interest in the problems of war and peace has recently brought forth an elaborately documented attempt to upset the theory of German War guilt*; and the strife-pregnant though thus far peaceable post-War development of Turkey and Egypt has just been set forth by the much heeded oracle of the London Westminster Gazette...
...much noise has resounded in the press rooms from typewriters pregnant with messages concerning the morals and luck of morals in the American college and university. The final supposedly deft, handling of such stupid trifling with misunderstood ideas is the symposium, so fundamentally truthful, accomplished by multiple lists of questions sent about the country to various and sundry editors of college papers. The list which Liberty has sent included such valuable, succinct, and apt interrogations as these...
...present diamond mining is carried on by the large companies chiefly with automatic machinery. The final operation of separating out the diamonds is performed by flowing diamond-pregnant mud over greased tables of corrugated iron. While the mud and such other minerals as it contains flow on over the tables, the diamonds are caught and held by the grease...
Such taps as these awoke echoes; the very names were pregnant as the curtain of an opera house with musical memories. One. thought of Puccini dying alone in a Brussels hotel while Bohéme was being played in Manhattan and a critic there was writing, "Wherever a fiddle scrapes, his songs are heard. . . ." Of Maestro Fortune Gallo shouting, "I tell you my name is Fortune. . . . I tell you opera will pay. . . ." Of Signer Serafin imposing his electricity on the wavering scores of Metropolitan experiments. ... Of Toscanini throwing down his cello in the Opera House in Rio de Janeiro...