Word: bore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average individual accepts them as a matter of course. Some men take them as a bore and give them as little time as possible. There are others or whom this glimpse of different fields is an impulse to further investigation. Yet divisionals themselves require that the earnest student select courses not in other fields but courses which will be of benefit to him in his chosen field. To fill in the gaps and round out the college training, an able corps of tutors may not only guide the students in their fields of concentration, but may also encourage them...
Quite quickly, however, came a change. Ragtime began to be composed to words which bore no relation to cotton-picking or coal-black mammies...
...Soviet inquiries and insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...
...During the war I met a graduate of Harvard, indeed he bore the Harvard name. I never saw his face distinctly while he lived, for we met only at night where our sectors adjoined. I caught only such glimpses of him as were revealed when rockets and star shells illuminated our meeting place. We had frequent talks, and he told me of his life at Harvard College and all that it meant...
After putting on a play with a considerable amount of delicate charm, the Boston Stock Company pursues this week a higher and more widely popular vein, "Rolling Home" is just another comedy that will make people laugh if they are in the right mood for laughter, and will bore them if they are feeling tired. Such things as "Rolling Home" are written because most audiences crave amusement--they want to do their weeping somewhere else...