Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Divine, Negro religious leader (see PEOPLE), whom his followers believe to be God, often grants interviews which are published at length in his weekly paper, The New Day. They go something like this. Father Divine: "Now I may have said that and I may not have said that. I bear no record of it, but if I said something like that, it must be true and if it is true, I could not have said otherwise." The follower: "Yes, Father. How true that is, Father. It was very kind of you to give me this interview, Father. Bless you, Father...
Another aspect of Bert's effectiveness is the lifetime of technical perfection that he can bring to bear on the small problems that matter in crew. The "lifetime" is almost literal, for when he was born in Winsor, England, his father and three uncles, all champion punters, were waiting to impart to him all their love. Bert's father impressed the principles of coxing on him at nine by cracking his knuckles when he made a miscalculation. This is one teaching device that Bert has not found it expedient to carry over to the Harvard scene...
Girls already engaged will substitute baby carriages for the conventional hoops with she who bears away the blue ribbon being the first to bear. The dean's office had no comment on its girls laboring in this manner...
...April Progressive contains eleven articles, six of which ought to be of special interest to socially aware undergraduates all over the country. The other five items, including competent reports from Washington and on Palestine and a clay pigeon contributed by the opposition, entitled "The Failure of Democratic Socialism," bear the stigma of being inferior examples of what The Nation or The New Republic do all the time. But rounded out by two superb editorials on the Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen Barton '45 and some nicely-written criticism by James J. Taylor...
...consequence of a great bombardment it is now three years that we are without home. I believe that you know what it means when one who had over a proper lodging and who has two children is compelled to live with other families and when that is not to bear the whole family must go in subtenure...