Word: bored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written two days before in his little study aboard the Indianapolis, his address bore in its plush use of adjectives the inevitable mark of having been composed under the Southern Cross. On the desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...
...because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger pigeon, bought for $1, was sold for $75-but someone figured out that a cash dollar deposited at compound interest at the time of purchase would have yielded a higher return...
...Boswell and Johnson at it again. To bore you with extended criticism of style and manner of these two fast friends would be both vain and presumptuous, and we shall politely conclude that overworked angle with: "So much has been said on both sides, and so well, that we have nothing more...
Blindness handicapped her last years but she bore this affliction, not with pity-seeking sorrow nor with despairing indignation, but rather with a calm and philosophical acceptance. She accepted reality bravely. "I dislike making a fuss," she often asserted...
...Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist the mightiest earthquake ever known...