Noun : a fountainhead of information. From Dictionary.com.
I wonder if Rand is the 'fountainhead' of the nonfiction business books, many of which present themselves as complete. From Wordnik.com. [the non-academic success of Atlas Shrugged] Reference
La Scala, the very spiritual fountainhead of opera. From Wordnik.com. [1977 Hillsdale College Address (Whatever Happened to Free Enterprise)] Reference
Tell me the real truth, as you have it from the fountainhead. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
We are saying that Jenin was the fountainhead of suicide bombers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2002] Reference
Wikipedia has recently corrected this (finally) reply fountainhead. From Wordnik.com. [SnapNames: Apologies Shouldn’t Be Conditional, Especially When You Steal From Customers] Reference
To Emily, who got it from the fountainhead, it was a realm of chivalry. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
Up rode the Greens riding on a fountainhead up rode the Democrats, the ALP. From Wordnik.com. [John Howard's glowing futures] Reference
The ICG report says it is the fountainhead of Deobandi militancy countrywide. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2008] Reference
Today, this fountainhead of energy is leaking like a slowly deflating balloon. From Wordnik.com. [The Infuriating Smartphone Saunter] Reference
Ayn Rand novels, not SDS rallies, were the fountainhead of libertarian converts. From Wordnik.com. [Unstrategic Alliances, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The circular wall which once inclosed the fountainhead is now partly broken down. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Leather hinges rent like paper and the latch burst into a fountainhead of sparks. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
Perhaps middle age indeed is the fountainhead of cynicism and the period to beware of. From Wordnik.com. [Youth : A misplaced idealism ?] Reference
In the past 500 years, this Continent used to be the fountainhead of the world's worst wars. From Wordnik.com. [Those Reassuringly Dull Germans] Reference
You realised in 1998 that the unity of the ANC was the fountainhead of any other achievement. From Wordnik.com. [OPENING SPEECH BY EBRAHIM RASOOL, AT THE 4TH PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE OF THE ANC WESTERN CAPE] Reference
The fountainhead of his trouble, of course, is the murderous quagmire he has created in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: BUSH'S IRAQ EXIT STRATEGY RUNS THROUGH IRAN] Reference
The fountainhead of his physical being decently covered, a man could go to his death decently. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
It was this kind of thing that made the Iranians consider us the fountainhead of all duplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Because i’m hell busy.] Reference
Ajdukiewicz's essay became the fountainhead of the subsequent subdiscipline of categorial grammar. From Wordnik.com. [StanisÅaw LeÅniewski] Reference
And for the Lord is the fountainhead of all mercy, and forgive Israel of all its guilt, all its fault. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005] Reference
Founded in 1969, the Place quickly became the fountainhead of a youthful British modern dance movement. From Wordnik.com. [This Is the Place] Reference
According to the John Bircher fountainhead of today's Tea-Bangers, President Eisenhower was a communist. From Wordnik.com. [Paula Gordon: a Land of Nuts and Money] Reference
In his own country he is the fountainhead of a wide stream of literary influences that has ever broadened as it flowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
The fountainhead of the problems of southern Africa is, of course, the situation in South Africa, the apartheid system. From Wordnik.com. [PRESS CONFERENCE IN LONDON, MARCH 21, 1984(1)] Reference
But as Cook perceptively noted, people have consistently failed to discover the fountainhead of the American pathology. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Need A New Constitution: Part 2 of 21] Reference
Pivotal, as the fountainhead of analytical fallacy, was an apparent mental fixation on labor as alone really productive. From Wordnik.com. [ECONOMIC HISTORY] Reference
There are many excellent maps issued, but it is best to go to the fountainhead, to the publications of the Ordnance Survey. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The committee (the jury) drawn from the neighbourhood and the people themselves were seen to be the fountainhead of justice. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom of Expression vs. the Individual's Right to Privacy] Reference
In 1993, he took over the Royal Court, the fountainhead of new English drama since its discovery of John Osborne in the '50s. From Wordnik.com. [Broadway's British Invasion] Reference
Peace Award in March 1995 when he said the country would never again be the fountainhead of conflict in the region and further afield. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He has started at the fountainhead and the purity of his home and hearthstone is a magnificent memorial to the purity of the black woman. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
The Israeli government says it was, among other things, a fountainhead of terrorism activity that had to be extinguished, in their words. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 1, 2002] Reference
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