Word: whereof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week marks the 140th Anniversary of Pierian, in celebration whereof, a special Anniversary Concert has been scheduled for Friday evening. The visual enticements of the Radcliffe Dance Group will also be on display to put the final clink into the Sodality's toast to itself...
Jazz music receives three types of treatment from writers today: 1) complete disregard from those who prefer not to "stoop"; 2) lofty head-patting from classical critics who think Louis Armstrong primarily a movie comedian; and 3) intelligent reporting by explorers who know whereof they speak...
...Gaulois have all gone into the making of those women," he declared, pursing his fingers in his familiar Gallic attitude. "He who says that Radcliffe girls are born, not made, knows not whereof he walls," Gaulois continued...
...Buxom Mrs. Helen Virginia Somers, whose theory was that the Charter implements a plot to make the Duke of Windsor "king of the world." Qualified Mrs. Somers: "I know whereof I speak; I'm no crackpot...
...place resolved itself into a bare and dirty room, with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part might be of glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copybooks and paper. . . . The walls were so stained and discoloured that it was impossible to tell whether they had ever been touched with paint or whitewash...