Word: bore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago Geraldine Farrar, empress of Carmen, told a tumultuous and rather bitter farewell to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Farrar-fans roared vociferously, "tossed their sweaty nightcaps in the air," and bore off such prizes as they could from the ensuing auction sale of the prima donna's stage trappings...
Watkins, a slight young man of medium height, swung on the burly Gallivan, who used to be the toughest umpire-baiter on the Harvard ball teams of the 80's.* Members intervened and bore off the rash Oregonian before he could hurt himself...
...nationalist outbreak. The coffin was transhipped in solemn state across Berlin. It was stored in the room at the Anhalter railway station reserved for visitors of royal rank. After speeches by members of the Cabinet, Nationalist throngs sang Deutschland Ober Alles. A forest of flags surrounded the cortege, and bore the anti-Jewish swastika cross, old Monarchist and Prussian flags, death's head flags with the motto Mit Gott für Kaiser und der Vaterland. As the royalist hymns arose, adjacent factories and warehouses were lined with workers, stenographers and pale-faced girls who struck up the Communist...
...statistics of tobacco production in this country for last February bore out the above general tendencies of the trade. Production of cigarettes for that month was 4,855 million compared with 4,624 million from February, 1923, and 3,126 million over February, 1922. Cigar production, which had increased from 447 million in the second month of 1922 to 507 million in the same month of 1923, declined last February to 498 million. February in the past three years, found manufactured tobacco declined from 29,215,513 pounds in 1922 to 29,083,145 pounds last year, mounted...
Coach Herbert went on to explain how the Candians gradually adopted the game, name it "Lacrosse" because of the resemblance which the sticks bore to a bishop's crosse, refined it, reduced the number of players to 25, and played on a field 200 instead of 2000 yards square. Dr. W. G. Beers of Quebee earned his title of "the originator of modern lacrosse" by formulating a set of rules in 1867, when also lacrosse was adopted as Canada's national game...