Word: concorde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drive a car, and at 80 had no intention of learning. Neither was he enamored of taxicabs, nor of the modern habit of leaping into one every time it rained. He liked to begin his day (after rising promptly at 6:45 in his stately house in suburban Concord) by walking the half mile from North Station to his office on State Street...
...will soon be numbing the digits to the point where, for the first ten minutes of the hour, they can make no fountain pen do their bidding. Maneuverability is even lower for the wayfarer who, by dogsled or other means, has made the long trek from the tundras of Concord or Lexington...
...takes a man with a diversified course to win possession of the pieces of the puzzle, and to assemble them without guidance is to ask too much of his powers of integration. Browsings in Brattle Street, random windings on Beacon Hill and drives to Concord, Salem, Gloucester, Plymouth and points Capeward, even with the tutorial aid of the Massachusetts Guide Book, will not yield the rounded values which some systematic instruction would give...
...Concord is not natural to men or nations...
Frederick Bishop Chamberlin, Jr., of Concord and Holworthy Hall...