Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...timid and well-meaning; Squire Baldwin crafty and battered but not dangerous; Lloyd George disarmingly arch and jolly even when, by Cartoonist Low's lights, he was up to no good. There is no such warmth in Low's caricatures of Chamberlain. His overhanging eyebrows matching the steep curve of his mustache, his cadaverous features alternately harried and self-righteous, he appears in one Low drawing after another as sly, sad and sinister...
...over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal and try to clamber up Shameen's steep concrete sides to safety...
...until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that the burning tin touched his bare shoulder, sending a delightful spasm of pain through his core, he could see down the steep slate roof to the turgid Charles far below, wandering aimlessly between green banks and slatternly factories...
...gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls of white water which shoot far out into the air and then plummet downwards like rockets, leaving behind them long...
...away honor students. Yet when the University attempts to explain away the situation, it invariably points to a number of men, not admitted, but "ineligible." How can a University boasting a liberal point of view condone a system of education which segregates the poorer students, so that they may steep together (sic) in their intellectual inertia? Is not the House just the place where they might find the stimulation they need through contact with students of other intellectual levels...