Word: boils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upon bringing his team to a boil...
...Indians peel and boil a starchy tapioca-type root. Their women then chew the root and spit it out to be fermented for about five days. It's pretty intoxicating when you keep at it for 12 or 14 hours as they do at the festivals...
...called "depressions, black as a smith's beard." Praised by his friends for his courage and devotion, he only answered tersely: "I stink in the midst of respect." Only Mary's misfortunes could lessen the pain of his own -which is why a wit named them "Gum Boil and Toothache," each being "a great relief" to the other...
...were to sum up critical opinion of Toynbee's Study of History since its initial publication it might boil down to the hesitant evaluation of each specialist scholar who says "In my own particular field Mr. Toynbee is rather superficial both in his facts and in his conclusions. But as for the many other areas I am not competent to say. And he work does have grand scope...
...Boston Herald gave word that it had information about Harvard which, if printed, would leave no Harvard parent "whose blood would no boil and who would not stamp his feet with indignation...