Word: wont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks easy to say to France: "We wont across now you come across"; but there is more to it than that. This attitude involves the fundamental fallacy of demanding gold where there is none, and of antagonizing a friend and benefactor by an impossible severity. If there is wisdom in Washington, the United States will foster the restoration of French finance as the first condition of repayment, and tax reduction at home will be left entirely to the slower but surer policy of retrenchment...
...diabetes. What is perhaps the best known remedy is the injection of insulin into the veins. But injections are troublesome, expensive, often painful. Come Mendel, Wittgenstein, Wolffenstein, three wise men of Berlin, professors at the University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through...
...dictator of Venezuela; in San Juan, Porto Rico, from hemorrhage of the stomach. In 1890 his neighbors sent him, part Negro, part Indian, to Congress. He bought him a pair of patent leather boots. Boots, however, were his abomination; and each time that he went to Congress he was wont to take them off and place them under his desk until time for leaving came around...
Wagner was totally incapable of seeing the other side of anything. With superb, domineering egotism, he was wont to summon his own witnesses, marshall his own facts, present them himself, give a verdict in his own favor...
...from a fellow-student is not inaccurate for his entire career As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation. Always he delighted to emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...