Word: bear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although a brilliantly colored folder attests the fact that many special trains will bear supporters of the Crimson to within inconvenient walking distance from the Bowl, the prospective passengers are concealed by the bustle of more picturesque travellers. Dull indeed are the ears that have not registered the consternation attendant on the phrase "he isn't sure he can get the car". In fact the less conscientious eavesdropper has found that genuine football pilgrims are characterized by an almost universal lack of assurance...
...donna. She is a prima donna and nothing interferes. She sings twice a week at the Metropolitan, their highest salaried singer. She rehearses. She sleeps. Other singers may ail. Jeritza has never missed a performance. Her public (she used to call it pooblic) must not be disappointed, and to bear out the principle she sang a concert once in Brooklyn on one foot, the other so badly sprained she had to be carried on the stage and propped against the piano. Yet trembling with fatigue when it was over she could still make a joke. Bent and looking infinitely pathetic...
Every watcher knew that the great power plant will not be called conventionally, "Unit 27" or "Brunot's Island Plant." but will bear the name of James Hay Reed. Most watchers, city-conscious, remembered smart James Hay Reed as the Pittsburgh lawyer behind the formation of the U. S. Steel Corp. Young Reed had learned his law in two good schools. As a graduate of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), he had gone first to the office of his lawyer uncle, famed David Reed of Pittsburgh. Five years of study and he was ready...
John Jacob Raskob has been both bull and bear. His most bearish moment was on the eve of the bankers' convention (TIME, Oct. 15), when he observed that "security prices have far outrun demonstrated values." His most bullish moment was on the eve of his sailing for Europe last March, when he predicted new records for General Motors, observing that the stock should sell at 15 times its earnings, or $225 a share...
...that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably bear Harold's child. Harold's unexpected reappearance so confuses the situation that nothing is left for the author but to let Jonathan fall ill and die, clinging to the hand of Rachel...