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Word: bearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside of a choice vocabulary, a wartime course on the intricacies of slit-trench excavation bears little fruit for the veteran studying English at Harvard. College men bowed gracefully to military instruction and promptly forgot it. But now, as civilian students, ex-G.I.'s find that wartime studies loom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Credit Credo | 10/14/1947 | See Source »

Since Davis Cuppers Kramer and Schroeder plan to join up with the pros before the year is ended, Pancho at 19 is obviously a rising amateur who bears watching. Long out of favor with Southern California's amateur tennis czar Perry Jones because he wouldn't stay in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Watch Pancho | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

* Goober-hanging": a discreet daytime version of what grandmother called spooning. A less active sport is "piping the flock," when Cal males watch Cal "quails" preening in the sun on the steps of Wheeler Hall. * The eight: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the agricultural college at Davis, a medical center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Man on Eight Campuses | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

With a threadbare story and a total lack of spectacular sunsets, or five-minute chases, Carol Red and his crew have filmed twenty-four hours of a lost cause with the realistic effort of a smack in the face. The dialogue bears the dewey stamp of the auld sod; the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/3/1947 | See Source »

As a Red Cross nurse in World War I, Elmira Bears (rhymes with cheers) put in months at nightmarish service in France. After the Armistice, she stayed on for seven months as chief nurse for Herbert Hoover's relief commission to Belgium. Back in the U.S., she continued her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Well Done | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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