Word: bear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bigotry," said Governor Roosevelt, "ignorance of Democratic principles; the spread by unspeakable and un-American methods of the most atrocious falsehoods; unfair and improper pressure brought to bear upon workers in specially favored Republican industries, false claims for the prosperity of the country and kindred propaganda, cheated, so my correspondents feel, our party out of the Presidency." The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune replied: "If Governor Roosevelt and his correspondents have any evidence of illegal attempts to influence the 1928 election, that evidence ought to go to the legislature or the courts. Even then the reference to the Tilden...
...group left New York yesterday under the auspices of the department of Tropical Medicine of the Medical School on an expedition to Yucatan which may bring forth new light upon the Mayan civilization. The Carnegie Foundation of Washington has also appropriated funds for the expedition, and will bear a part of the expense...
Whether or not this method in operation at Harvard bears immediate fruit in the so-called "brain tests" is an impossible question to determine; results are likely to differ with each individual student. If, however, this is in any way likely, as the Yale News seems to believe, the Harvard system would bear watching during the course of the next few years...
...party. . . . The party should be responsible to the rank and file, and the whole system of calling upon a few rich men to make up a party deficit is wrong. . . . There must be a great many people who can afford $100 . . . $50 . . . $10 ... $5. I am quite willing to bear my full share. Countless letters come to me . . . which contain requests for printed copies of the speeches made by me during the last campaign. I have decided I would forego any profit from such a book. The Democratic National Committee has accepted my offer and will present, with my compliments...
...Strange Case of Lena Smith. A series of patient, beautifully photographed and slightly academic incidents record the suffering which life lays bit by bit upon Esther Ralston, a Viennese servant-girl. It isn't always clear why she should bear so much-the loss of her child, the concealment of her marriage, the insults of the Chief of the Bureau of Morals, in whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef...