Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emerson led the assault of Harvard students of a comtemplative bent, who came to Mount Auburn to lose themselves in the shady walks. James Russell Lowell used to wander through Mount Auburn's glades "in pursuit of poetic thoughts," according to one noted writer, who also noted that Franklin Pierce was lost in thought under a tree there when he was informed that he had been nominated to the Presidency. Of course, we too were lost in contemplation, but since no one rushed to inform us of any impending elections, or great poetical thoughts, we just thought of the mist...
...Hardin County Fair last week he declined to sit on the officials' platform, turned down a chance to award a trophy, shook his head modestly when asked if he would like to make a few re marks at the livestock show. What he did was wander around, clasping hands, tousling little boys' hair, and telling everyone how glad he was to be at "your wonderful, just wonderful, great, beautiful and fine county fair." And that is the style that has made Lausche the greatest Democratic vote-getter in Ohio history...
...they wander astray...
...last June, Don Giovanni Rossi knelt in chapel before the Blessed Sacrament. Outside, a man pounded down the steep, cobbled street loudly singing a popular tune. Don Giovanni's prayer faltered, and he thought ruefully: "If only that fellow were singing of Jesus, my mind wouldn't wander...
...practicing physician−are reflected in such salty recent discussions as the effects of contraception on the national IQ, the dangers of infection from public telephones and the obsoleteness of bedpans (the Lancet favors mobile bedside commodes). In essays from subscribers ("Peripatetic Correspondents"), the Lancet is likely to wander into even more esoteric fields. Recent correspondents discussed jammed zippers on men's trousers, the moral rights of physicians to evade traffic rules, the hazards of being attacked by family pets. One correspondent started an animated debate by advising his fellow practitioners to use a hypodermic syringe to deflate...