Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand the point of questions 9 and 10. If the general examinations are of the proper sort, preparation for them and work in the general field should boil down to the same thing. If this is not the case, there may well be something wrong with the examinations. Construing tutorial work in this broader sense, I cannot honestly say that any one of the students I have had has "failed to respond to tutorial instruction...
Last week Thomas Bassett Macaulay was no longer serene. In a lot magazine he read things that made him boil and fume...
...Gross party was camping on South Mountain. Just before taking off for a soar, Dr. Gross put a kettle of potatoes on the open fire to boil. After wheeling & turning about the hills for an hour, Dr. Gross suddenly remembered his cooking, swooped low over the heads of the crowd on the ridge, asked someone to look to the potatoes, floated away again. (The potatoes were burned.) For 5 hr. 8 min. Funk & Gross stayed up, Dr. Gross becoming so weary that he let his legs dangle over the edge of the fuselage...
...patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then be fed wi' all the Milk o' Paradise" is a bit of Penny Pitches' Glastonbury wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon William Crow's will. To the disgust of the assembled Crows the old man has left his money to his secretary-valet John Geard, an evangelistic fanatic who can cure old Tittie Petherton's cancer pains by holding...
...Communications). Able Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca and the other civilians resigned some hours later, but rumors persisted that they would soon go back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian, who until he quarreled with General Calles six months ago was always considered the least ambitious, most loyal and efficient of Mexican Generals. Last week...