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Word: bored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bore the insignia of the American Field Service and the American Red Cross; therefore, on November 5 and 6, I became the representative of the American tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Polygamy was an institution Mormons would and did die to defend, and Author Whipple makes out a touching and levelheaded case for it; but it was no laughing or lascivious matter. It was like the most respectable Christian marriage, only a great deal more so. None of the women bore it contentedly; and Abijah, on his first night back from a journey, confided to his diary: "I return like the sow to the wallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mormon Wife | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...himself an American heiress and a job in her father's dog-biscuit business ("I can't think what they would use him for," mused Lord Emsworth, "unless as a taster"); or the love-and-golf short stories of that Ancient Mariner of the links, the Club Bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: PRISONER WODEHOUSE | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...come some of Greece's ablest highland fighters. William Helis' grandfather was mayor of their town for 32 years. Young William went to America after finishing secondary school, did odd jobs in New York and Milwaukee. In 1908 he married a Philadelphia girl of Dutch descent, who bore him three daughters and a son. He set up a coffee and spice business in Kansas City, Mo., became a top sergeant in the National Guard in World War I. Then he hunted for oil in Texas - and found it, near Wichita Falls. He found more in Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Sons of Greece | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Utuado, Puerto Rico, Sefiora Carmen Lopez bore triplets: on Monday a girl, on Tuesday another girl, on Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 25, 1940 | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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