Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years passed, ten more statues of Sarah and John M. Davis were set up in the tomb. There was Sarah as a young wife and Sarah as an old wife, standing and gazing. There was John sitting with Sarah; there was John sitting beside an empty marble chair (which bore an engraved inscription: "The Vacant Chair"). There was John kneeling on his wife's grave and Sarah, equipped with a set of wings, kneeling with a stone bouquet in one hand on the spot he had reserved for himself...
Frederick D. Houghteling '50 and Richard M. Hays '49 were elected president and vice-president of the Harvard Liberal Union for the fall term in a meeting which bore little resemblance to the hotly contested affair of last October. Both Houghteling and Hays were the only nominees to their respective positions as was Dwaine W. Dilts '50 who was chosen secretary...
...this group wishes to prove that "Not all the education at East Lansing goes on in the classrooms," it should alter its club program at once. Lest they bore their husbands to death, let them study (at college level) science, philosophy, economics and sociology. Let them learn to love great literature, art and music. They should cultivate the lost art of intelligent conversation, and throw away the bridge tables...
...Sutherland, reminisced about the canings he had received as a schoolboy: "I cannot remember that I ever suffered from it, and I took my revenge on my housemaster years later by making him my trustee and executor of my will. I think that that will show that I bore no ill will...
...recent session, a Member tried to get the attention of Laborite Neil MacLean, called sotto voce, "Neil . . . Neil." Six women, they say, knelt.) Brigadier Sir Charles Howard, the Serjeant at Arms (who insists that his title be spelled that way), wearing knee breeches and black silk stockings, bore on his right shoulder the five-foot, knob-headed gilded mace which is the House of Commons' symbol of authority. Then, stiff and staring straight ahead, came the Speaker, handsome Colonel Clifton Brown. His grey wig reached to the shoulders of his long black gown, the train of which was carried...