Word: bored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belief that if a childless couple adopt a baby they may soon after produce one of their own is as old as the Bible. Abraham's Sarah bore Isaac 14 years after Ishmael entered their Canaan tent. Jacob's Rachel finally bore Joseph and Benjamin after Jacob begat ten sons and a daughter by other women of his tenthold. A reasoned explanation of such phenomena was offered last week by a zoologist of Burlington...
...College Catalogue is generally conceded to have been guilty of understatement in regard to the number of hours needed for weekly laboratory assignments, as the Council Committee's survey bore out fairly conclusively. No conceivable objection can be raised against increasing these inaccurate estimates by the necessary amounts. A man should not have to be tricked into taking any laboratory course by the supposition that it is only a part-time job. He is too likely to be led toward a severance of University connections at a much earlier date than he had hoped or inteded...
...Roosevelt city. On the outskirts a group of WPA workers leaned on their shovels, booed lustily as he passed. As his car continued down crowded Broadway the boos swelled into a great, derisive roar. There were cheers, too, sometimes rising above the boos, sometimes being drowned out. Alf Landon bore his mile-long ordeal with composure, but once inside his hotel he seemed, to members of his party, crushed...
...Tribune's late great Publisher Joseph Medill had no sons, two daughters. Daughter Katharine married Diplomat Robert S. McCormick, bore Medill, who became a U. S. Senator, and Robert R. McCormick. Daughter Elinor married Editor Robert W. Patterson, bore Joseph and Eleanor Patterson. As rich men's sons, Cousins "Bertie" and "Joe" both went to Groton and Yale. Afterward, both dabbled in Chicago politics but with notably different approaches. Cousin Bertie remained true to his class, performed efficient civic service as an orthodox Republican. Cousin Joe turned social-conscious and, along with several novels and plays, wrote Confessions...
...Nijinsky, now interned in a Swiss insane asylum, Stravinsky writes: "He spoke little, and, when he did speak, gave the impression of being a very backward youth whose intelligence was very undeveloped for his age. . . . The poor boy knew nothing of music. . . ." To Stravinsky, German Richard Wagner is a bore, his fellow Slav, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a genius of late greatly underrated. Stravinsky says he detests "star conductors" who pride themselves on their interpretations. According to Stravinsky's precepts the composer's notations should be all-sufficient...