Word: abounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvards Abound...
...bureaus, 460 offices, 631 divisions, 40 boards. Over the globe it owns more than 5,000 buildings (139 in Washington alone) and more than 1,000,000 motor vehicles, worth about $2 billion. Its records would fill six buildings the size of the Pentagon. Overlapping and duplication of effort abound. Example: a Columbia River salmon, swimming upstream to spawn, comes under the jurisdiction of twelve different federal agencies concerned with fish and wildlife...
...back any longer. Like now. I have here before me a little release the Democratic National Committee sent to the press over the weekend. It insists that the Democratic Party "is in complete agreement" with a number of things Dewey has said. Things such as these: "Our streams should abound with fish," (Denver, Sept. 21); "Everybody that rides in a car or bus uses gasoline and oil," (also in Denver); "You know that your future is still ahead of you," (Phoenix, Sept. 23); and "Ours is a magnificent land--every part of it," (also in Phoenix...
...when Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots, brought her court to Edinburgh, Knox cried: "The preachers were wondrous vehement in reprehension of all manner of vice, which then began to abound; and especially avarice, oppression of the poor, excess, riotous cheer, banqueting, immoderate dancing, and whoredom that thereof ensues." Knox titled one famous pamphlet "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women...
Conway is populated with every type of barrel-slat boarder. Social skiers, snow bunnies, vacationers seeking their first contact with winter's great outdoors, pros, and even a few mouth-skiers who don't bother to bring skis, abound...