Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Student epicureans often have had thoughts, many of them unspeakable, about the House dinning halls. And even the most unimaginative have had dreams of a highly colorful if distressing nature. But none of these mental gymnastics, however fancy-free, bear comparison with the actual occurrence...
...general, the London decisions took from the Canadian Federal Government and wished onto the provincial governments of the Dominion many a charge and responsibility so heavy that Prime Minister King will have to find new legislative means of having the Dominion bear them anyhow. In Ottawa the Privy Council decisions were called of "utmost importance," confirming as they did the Canadian Supreme Court which gave Canada's "New Deal" a tentative scrapping last spring (TIME, June 29). As was then stressed, Canada's unconstitutional NPMA (Natural Products Marketing Act) was similar but less inclusive than the unconstitutional...
...Rawls went on to add that "there are, of course, always a number of hangers-on around the doors of a musical show, but the legitimate stage has become terribly proper." It seems that picking up is now done by appointment, with introductions, letters, and complete formality. "One must bear in mind," she continued, "That acting on the legitimate stage is every bit as serious work as writing a paper." As a matter of corroborative detail she recounted in experience she once had during a run in Chicago. At a cocktail party a dowager under full sail bore down...
...shrewd speculator can acquire valuable privileges by buying a seat on the Stock Exchange. Its copyright title is derived from a card game called Make a Million, in which the pack contains bull and bear cards. Jury Box is an effort to combine in practical form the sadistic appeal of crime stories with the masochistic fascination of the puzzle. It is a box of six envelopes, each of which contains a description of, and all the material necessary for, the solution of a serious crime. The host acts as district attorney, passes out evidence to his guests, who form...
...East Irvington, N. Y,, answering a midnight emergency call, Patrolman George Butler sped his radio car to an out-of-the-way household where Mrs. Eleanor Moller, 22, was about to bear her third child, in a kitchen, alone. Police Doctor Cassius De Victoria was soon en route in another police radio car, but Mrs. Moller could not wait. Patrolman Butler edged his car up to the window of the kitchen where she lay, turned up the radio to full blast, so Dr. De Victoria could tell him what to do. In a few minutes John Joseph Butler Moller...