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Word: untrodden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentiment in the long run gets the better of humor. "Imagine at nearly three that mind of his ! I imagine it, you know, as a little house, a little honeycomb, made up of pearly white cells - glistening, dewy, lustrous, semitransparent, pearly pearly white cells: untrodden, untouched, and pure, oh pure beyond all conception of purity. Imagine by contrast with it the honeycomb house of a long-used mind, the mind of one past middle-age, and you will realize how pure and white and glistening and untouched it is. Imagine the trodden, trampled, often miry footpaths, (no, thought-paths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winter's Child | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

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