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Word: roam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the day which perhaps more than any other in the year is worthy of my notice; worthy of being placed beside January 1 as a date from which I may reckon. Upon this day I begin my annual April wanderings. For a week I shall roam wildly upon the highways and byways of the land, and seek out the rarer nooks to meditate upon the beauties and kindred affections of the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/17/1926 | See Source »

...written so many in the same vein. Not even the most vigorous literary adventurer can endure too many adventures. So this last leaves Mr. Farnol rather weak. Yet there are still a great many world-worn moderns, tired equally of Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen who can take his dog for a grand walk when...

Author: By D. S. Gibbs, | Title: Romance in Cocked Hats and Shirt Sleeves | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

...only remained lor the head keeper to waft his sickle at a few imaginary shoots of twitch grass, for the chairman of the greens committee to make efficient little dents with his heel in the sleek turf of the first tee, and for a few bag-shirted "guineas" to roam through the dusk, disconsolate but faithful in their contemplation of water-lilies that sprang up from slippery rubber stalks on the more pallid putting greens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Oakmont | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

Whateven the verdict of the experts, there is still, a great deal of virtue in the old-fashioned variety of study. It is easier to sit in a comfortable chair and let the mind roam to the far reaches of a subject than it is to attempt to learn formulae, memorize passages from the great authors of the past or dig deep into abstract principles. But the former is profitless unless it rests on the firm foundations of the latter. It is true that the great inventions of the age are the children of imagination, but the automobile, the flying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/6/1925 | See Source »

Equipped with large-capacity pumps at her waterline, the Ethyl will roam the seas, sucking up 7,000 gallons of water per minute. A recovery plant on board is expected to extract 100,000 lb. of bromine a month, the ocean waves and winds taking care of sewage and fume problems that would be troublesome on shore. If the Ethyl proves a treasure ship, a bromine fleet may soon follow her to sea. The experiment may also open a rich field in other ocean extracts?for instance, iodine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floating Factory | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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