Word: bore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith bore the brunt of the Crimson attack in the first half. While the Worcester defenders were busy covering Gordon, the Sophomore forward caged four goals. In the second half, however, the Crimson leader came to the fore and brought his scoring total for the evening to 16 points. Harvard Worcester Tech. Smith, r.f. l.g., Delphos Gordon, Merriam, l.f. r.g., Higgins, Gross Samborski, Black, r.g. l.f., Bittner Rudofsky, l.g. r.f., Sharpe...
...Thomas Myerscough of Pittsburgh, Secretary of the Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers (a communist organization attempting to "bore from within" the union) applied for reinstatement in the union. The Committee on Appeals and Grievances denied his request because he had organized a "dual" union (political and industrial...
...miser once married a woman whose profile duplicated one he had seen on a coin. The tale is told by O. Henry. Since the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, more than 770,000,000 silver dollars*; have been minted. They have been admired for the beautiful head they bore. According to the designer, George Morgan, it was a portrait of the most perfect head he had ever seen. Whose? That of a Philadelphia schoolmistress, who never married-Miss Anna W. Williams. She resigned last week after 40 years' service in Philadelphia schools. As supervisor of kindergartens she had acquired...
...Conant's predecessor, old Jones the Bell-ringer, as he was called, who bore the brunt of the attacks in the old days. For 44 years he protected the bell and its clapper from an infinite variety of plots by undergraduates seeking a few extra hours of sleep in the morning. Mr. Conant described a few of the methods used, "Besides stealing the clapper, the boys used to tie up the bell with a rope. And in the wintertime they turned it upside down, filled it with water, and let it freeze." In order to avoid the padlocks, the usual...
...type and in form of "make-up" it had acquired a startling likeness to the Public Ledger (Philadelphia). It bore the names of Mr. Curtis' correspondents and contributors. The eight-column news pages had been lessened to seven. The six-column editorial page had been increased to seven. The editorials which formerly issued from the liberal pen of Simeon Strunsky had gone?for Mr. Strunsky had departed to The New York Times. In their place was the form and, in good part, the editorial substance of the Ledger. The Bowling Green, on which Christopher Morley played so many jovial games...