Word: whereof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consulting Mining Engineer, West Coast Patriot Evans should know whereof he speaks. TIME merely reported 1) President Roosevelt's proposal, 2) East Coast Steelpatriots' understandable objections...
...Ambassador gave his distinguished audience an earful which made many of them wish for deafness. He used an unofficial occasion to express an official, definitely controversial, exceedingly ticklish point of view. His words, he said, "came straight from the horse's mouth . . . and mind you, I know whereof I speak...
...Band That Plays the Blues", will be at the Minute Man Record Shop on Boylston Street next Wednesday from three to four. Besides having brought his band from mere local fame to a national peak in the space of one year, Woody is a brilliant musician and really knows whereof he speaks. Drop around and get him to tell you why he thinks all good jazz should be built on the blues--it's worth hearing...
...suffer from the vindictiveness of the law. Our criminal law proceeds in its enforcement from no motives of revenge, and you have been returned not for the purpose of persecution but in order that you may be prosecuted in a decent and humane manner for the crime whereof you are charged...
...reflection in the past. This is Lion Feuchtwanger's method. The Pretender, his third novel of the Roman Empire, is not an antiquarian romance. It cannot be called a strictly historical novel. Readers will not need the reminder from Ecclesiastes that Author Feuchtwanger quotes: "Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us" (1 :10) to realize that much of the action of The Pretender parallels present European events. To give himself a freer hand, Author Feuchtwanger has based his story on a scanty...