Word: whereof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Davidson, Britain's professional badminton champion, should know whereof he speaks...
...Constitution says, "No Senator or Representative shall during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time...
...cars approaching? The question is obviously meaningless. The two cars are not approaching, nor in any way spatially related, for they are not in the same time-setting. . . . [Similarly] the stars and nebulae are all traveling at dizzy speeds along unknown and unpredictable paths . . . each in a different direction, whereof we can merely deduce the radial component at some long past instant. . . . The popular statements as to the distances of stars and nebulae, the size of the galaxy, and especially the 'expansion of the universe'. . . are foolish...
...hysterics! And boasted about it all! You say she is a Presbyterian. I wonder what other Presbyterians think of that. She looks like a good Christian woman, too, that is how insidious the Papists are, worming their crafty way into the confidence of people wherever they can. I know whereof I speak, am a Protestant, Christian churchgoer of 42 years standing...
Author Haines knows whereof he is writing. Though only 25, he has spent seven years as a lineman on power highways and electrical railroads. But in celebrating his craft and the men who pursue it, he has not overlooked the fact that novel writing is also a craft in itself. He has mastered the new calling as thoroughly as his hero. Slim, mastered the job of wire stringing. The tale is by turns hardboiled, sentimental, tragic, humorous. But the toughness, the sentiment, the tragedy and the humor all belong to a man's world. Pride of work comes first...