Word: wont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regime has been successful, partly because he blended efficiency with tradition: it would have been dangerous to apply rigid card-index methods to the University of Virginia, where Southern bloods are wont to loll on the lawn and contemplate the architectural works of Founder Thomas Jefferson...
...motors roared; Fijians retreated, howling with fear and regret. Into their lives had come something more thrilling even than the bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly. The triumph of the trimotored plane, the mapping of Pacific air routes-these meant nothing to the 7,000 natives of a remote island. Their three-day marvel was leaving them. They wept...
Even a great Correspondent must begin by taking his bearings. Therefore the first column and a half cabled by Mr. James was a bright, bedtimish story about Italia Bella, no longer famed lioness with which Il Duce was once wont to pose and gambol publicly (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926). Moral of the tale: Signer Mussolini is now so unshakably in power that he no longer needs to bolster up the legend of his invincibility by posing in a lion's cage...
...mustn't forget to get a mailing card. I wish I had another cup of coffee. Be calm, be calm. 586 B. C. While Jeremiah wont down into Egypt Cain and Abel were carried captive to Babylon, no it was Ezokiel. Ezekiel saw de wheel, catharsis, children cry for it; he won't ask that anyway...
...only true church of Christ" and submit to papal government and authority, one is tempted to say that in the light of past papal pronouncements it is exactly what was to be expected. One wonders, however, what those Roman Catholic students of church history who have been wont to invoke Cardinal Newman's doctrine of development in justification of the many and great changes which the centuries have made in the dogmas and practices of their church think of the papal statement that the Roman is the only church which, "by the will of its founder, must always remain just...