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Word: boredly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again Lavalle who bore the brunt as the Eagles dominated play early in the second stanza, and the advantage shifted back and forth as each team drew successive penalties. A speedy B.C. defense broke up the Crimson attacks until Wally Sears took a sideline pass from Davy Key at 15:03 and blasted it through Bernie Burke...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Sextet Humbles Favored Boston College, 4 to 3, As Barclay's Quintet Subdues Engineers, 57-46 | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

Also indicative of self-slaying, as interpreted by investigators, was a pool of blood over the area where the small bore gun was dropped. "As to why she took off her clothes, your guess is as good as mine," Massachusetts District Attorney James Conniff told reporters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suicide Earns Experts' Vote In Flint Death | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

...Landers, who has been selling the world's best seller for 35 years, has on his shelves even greater bargains for non-English speaking peoples. Three cents now supplies the South Sea missionary with portions of the Book in pamphlet form, and last year the Sloop Morning Star VI bore 2000 copies of the Four Gospels in native tongues to King John of Kusiae, and other potentates on the Marshall and Caroline Islands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

Some never-say-die spearheaders continue to bore the air along their accustomed lines-and with unhappy results. Two pages of Henry Miller's exhibitionist prose, a dozen lines of Kenneth Patchen's apocalyptic "self-expression" verse are all a reader needs to know forever the school of professional literary bohemianism. The shrill, barren exercises in surrealist freewheeling, the turgid moralizing of those poets who have retired to philosophical hermitages, and the vulgarity of the psychoanarchists-all these are dead letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Wheels in the Groove | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...pink satin double bed in her Beverly Hills home, gathering her column over two telephones. Out of the ripe grainfield sown by studio executives, wives, movie stars and pressagents, she may reap 30 or so printable bits. She never goes to studios or press parties, because "they bore the you-know-what out of me." But at night Edie goes everywhere with one of her bewilderingly large number of escorts, considers three parties or as many nightclubs a routine evening. Her nimble tongue can hold its own with Hollywood's best. (Just before Errol Flynn's acquittal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: House Detective | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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