Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studying the skull and bone structure, we figured that the three were a mother and two daughters, with black wavy hair (this we guessed after examining the small patch), and very prominent noses, probably Armenian types. I understand that pictures and descriptions of the Golden family bear this out," Woodbury said...
...true "college" sense--the Freshman Jubilee, late in May. It is the great Freshman Class dance. Since Freshman classes now number about 1,000 each year, the Jubilee is always a huge, sprawling affair with two orchestras, usually given in a huge, sprawling building, the Union, near the Yard. (Bear in mind that Harvard has a Yard, not a campus. All within hearing will screech if you call it a campus...
...risk is vested in the President of the United States. Mr. Roosevelt is the first President who thought fit to use that power. Every ounce of it was applied. Neither graphs, nor economic jargon, nor statistics are required to show how Mr. Roosevelt made the depression which should always bear his name. He created it by methods which were as direct as they were effective...
...creatures of the wood rush to the dwarfs. After an awful chase through gloomy mountain chasms the dwarfs force the Queen to the edge of a precipice and a thunderbolt tumbles her over. Snow White seems dead, but the dwarfs cannot bear to part from her. They let her sleep in a glass coffin. One day the Prince, wandering far and wide, hears of the girl who lies asleep in a glass box and when he sees her, kisses her. Snow White awakes and there is gaiety...
...when most men begin to take things easier, Stradivari painstakingly evolved an entirely new model, broader and darker in color than the Amati. All his life he had been a feverish but carefully slow worker; his later years showed no letdown. Though some of his last fiddles bear the marks of an old man's failing eyesight and trembling hands, the instruments he produced after the age of 83 are especially prized. (Violinists Kreisler, Zimbalist, Jacques Gordon, Heifetz own Strads of this period...