Word: bore
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...have never forgotten that. My grandmother was born in 1863, the year of the Emancipation, in Richmond, Virginia: when she came north to join her northern relative who had long been free she always referred to the Civil War as the "War of the Rebellion;" and she bore no sentimental brief for Robert E. Lee or for his kind. Eventually she settled here in Cambridge with her husband a local clergyman, and doubtless she walked within the shadows of Memorial Hall, perhaps taking the time from its clock tower. She knew that that building, then the largest academic building...
Harvard has the opportunity to sell these buildings according to the value they bore when they were purchased and maintained as rent-controlled buildings. The sale of these buildings to competent landlords committed to the continuing availability of affordable housing in Cambridge would be no loss to Harvard and would be an immeasurable gain to the city and its inhabitants, on campus and off. Cambridge is incredibly fortunate to have pople who are willing to maintain tenants at below-market rates, people who are so enthusiastically committed to the needs of Cambridge's citizens and of its communities. Harvard...
...dealers in 1975, had once been used to mark documents. Nahman Avigad of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem identified the impressions stamped into one piece of clay as coming from the seal of Baruch, son of Neriah, a scribe who recorded the doomsday proclamations of the prophet Jeremiah. Another bore the seal of Yerahme'el, son of King Jehoiakim's son, who the Book of Jeremiah says was sent on an unsuccessful mission to arrest both prophet and scribe - again confirming the existence of biblical characters...
Kovach observed, however, that "millennial terms are too short for [Gould's] thought process," and Gould bore that out in his opening remarks...
...explanation. Once multicelled grazers appeared, say paleontologists, it was only a matter of time before multicelled predators evolved to eat them. And, right on cue, the first signs of predation appear in the fossil record exactly at the transition between the Vendian and the Cambrian, in the form of bore holes drilled through shelly organisms that resemble stacks of miniature ice-cream cones. Seilacher, among others, speculates that the appearance of protective shells and hard, sharp parts in the late Precambrian signaled the start of a biological arms race that did in the poor, defenseless vendobionts...