Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, the seed of history that Leif Ericson had planted bore fruit. Another explorer, also a vehicle of destiny, was courageous in his faith that land lay westward...
...Western world. Its population jumped from 2,945,000 in 1780 to some 30,000,000 just before the Civil War. Since 1880, the decennial rate of increase has declined. Predictions were that the country would reach a static population in 1970-80. Census figures last week bore out the prophecy. The rate of increase in 1920-30 was 16.1%; in 1930-40: 7. Commented Mr. Austin: "We don't have enough babies and we are not building up with immigration from abroad." To many this fact had ominous implications. In the past, population growth has gone with national...
Novelists are sometimes good guessers, sometimes bad. Last month Novelist Arthur Calder-Marshall published a book about revolution in Mexico (The Way to Santiago), with a hero who bore a resemblance to President-reject Juan Andreu Almazan. In Novelist Calder-Marshall's book everybody expected the General to start his revolution on Independence Day (Sept. 16), but nothing happened. The revolt was to begin two weeks later, with the assassination of the President, but no revolution came...
...past three weeks, gunbugs have been peppering targets along Camp Perry's two-mile firing line-nearly 1,000 of them at a time. Most important of the 105 events: those that determine the National small-bore rifle championship, the National pistol championship, the National military (.30-calibre) rifle championship...
...small-bore title is what most civilian marksmen, the .22-calibre "squirters," shoot at. Winner last week, with a score of 3,187 out of a possible 3,200, was New Haven's Dave Carlson, 26-year-old apprentice toolmaker, who joined a junior rifle club when he was 15, was high man on the U. S. team that outshot 21 other nations in the 50-metre (prone) event at the 1937 world's championships at Helsinki...