Word: wont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their wont to murmur it from time to time, so they murmured "Nervous Nellie" last week when he first summoned to confer with him his former colleague, now become Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Borah, and later went to confer with President Coolidge, and then issued a statement...
Zizi, a desperate young thing, wandered through the Bois de Boulogne, where lovers are wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter...
...Darwin suggested two laws, sexual selection and natural selection. Sexual selection has been laughed out of the class room, and natural selection is being abandoned, and no new explanation is satisfactory even to scientists. Some of the more rash advocates of Evolution are wont to say that Evolution is as firmly established as the law of gravitation or the Copernician theory...
...first place, the Abbott, the head of the house, had come to be a great territorial lord. He sat in parliament. He moved in the highest circles of society at court. Often he held great offices of state. It was complained that he was autocratic; that he was wont to act without consulting the chapter, and to use the seal of the foundation as if it were his own. Even more, complaint was made that he had come to be a politician and a man of the world, more busied with government and politics and society than with the objects...
Similarly, but not be mentioned in the same paragraph, the Freshman Jubilee had two of its precious hours lopped off ruthlessly a few years ago. Dances at the Union no longer reach well into the morning as was their wont...