Word: bore
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...long time he worked alone, and alone bore the expense of collecting his materials, storing them at different places, of which the cellar of Harvard Hall was one. They were finally purchased by private subscription for the College, $12,000 being paid for them. Additions were made to this nucleus, until it finally assumed such proportions as warranted the further execution of his plan. In 1858 financial measures were first taken to establish the present Museum. Agassiz's untiring efforts to carry out his plan forced from the public an acknowledgment of the worth of that plan, and while others...
...bore from near the rising sun a band of different race...
...closed on Saturday evening last, and we are glad to state that it was a success, both financially and otherwise. The voting was very satisfactory in its results; Dr. Peabody received the clock, "Cambridge I" the silk banner, and (alas for Gillie!) Captain Tyler of the University Nine bore away the handsome ball...
...thoughts that a youthful bosom bore...
...must go. Not the man, but the office, is the object of their disapproval; the watchman goes forth, we assure our readers, with reputation as unspotted as when he came. We attempt no eulogy of his character; all who remember the active part - and the pail of chemicals - he bore in the conflagrations which have illumined our recent skies, will need no further reminder of that sleepless being whom we have been used to seeing the last thing at night and the first in the morning...