Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slips were parking tags from the nearby Port Arthur police department, and bore the sentence: "You have violated a traffic...
...engineers bore up well under the strain of quipsters' "Your programs aren't so hot any more," but soon found that the signal still flew out to Watertown. After a brief experiment with House drain pipes, they hit on the present scheme of piping programs through the University's electric lighting system. At present, extension cords reach only into the seven Houses, but only funds and wire are lacking for Yard coverage. Technical Director T. Michael Sanders '48 expects to have the project completed some time next fall...
Back in 1934 two budding economists wondered, as others had before them, if sunspots affected agricultural production and thus food prices. When they studied sunspots they found that their wax & wane apparently bore no relation to the rise or fall of agricultural production. But they were amazed to find that sunspot activity coincided with the rise & fall of industrial production and of stockmarket prices...
Although he let up and allowed three hits over the final frames, Hansen turned in a fine opening game performance. Occasional streaks of wildness gave him trouble, but he bore down each time to shut the door on the opposition...
...spirit bred a daily exaltation, and common things assumed great meaning. Water, when he bathed his face or drank at the well, was extraordinary for its wetness and coldness; food, partaken of at his own board or in the field; the strength of his white mare that bore him up so loyally; the darkness of the night sky that brought him rest-these things were all extraordinary for themselves and, more so, for the greatness of the creation behind them. So that he was attended in those autumn days, not only by the demons, but by the glory...