Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirers, George Moore, W. B. Yeats, Edmund Gosse, meanwhile began to worry about his perennial poverty, succeeded in getting him ?100 from the Privy Purse, thought that Joyce should show his gratitude by aiding the Allied cause. Joyce, who was under oath to the Austrians not to bear arms and is resolutely unpolitical, thought he did enough by spreading British culture. He founded the English Players and put on his play Exiles...
...hands across the seas" must be supplemented by American minds. By offering to establish an institute at Harvard, the Brazilian government is making a step, important not only in itself, but as a custom that may find favor with the rest of South America. It has wisely offered to bear most of the financial burden, leaving to Harvard the sole responsibility of providing a few rooms for the library and for lectures. The hand is extended, and by shaking it warmly Harvard will serve its undergraduate body, but even more striking, it will establish a precedent valuable to the whole...
Last April Su-Lin died. The body was given to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History for dissection. By last week Anatomist D. Dwight Davis had nearly made up his mind that the panda, the bear and the raccoon shared a common ancestor. He had completely made up his mind about something else: Su-Lin was a male...
...them-a great people for carving their names on rocks and monuments, as if determined to leave some mark on the face of their enormous country; violent but good-natured, naive but shrewd, poetic without knowing it, unintimidated by distance and too engrossed in their struggles with nature to bear grudges for long. And at the end of the 2,000-mile road they can understand William Clark's elation when he wrote, at the mouth of the Columbia: "Ocian in view...
...China, she was compelled to read five chapters of the Bible each morning, ten on Sundays, while her hospital routine waited, slowed, stalled. She stood it until one morning the Bible-reading held up a Caesarean, whereupon she slammed the Bible on the floor, crying "I can't bear it! I wish I'd never seen the damned thing!" Although he "never forgave nor forgot," that ended Bible-reading in the Fearn household...