Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legend tells, George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Potomac, it doubtless bore a British stamp. Later, his own features appeared on experimental, unauthorized dollars of the young country he fathered...
...Lewis and Clark Exposition coins bore Lewis on one side, Clark on the reverse...
...cheek-pouches in which she could carry food. Her fingers would bend until they lay flat on the back of her hand. She had two marmosets which she fondled like children, and indeed they bore a noticeable resemblance to her; they would sit in her lap, gazing with sad eyes into her underslung face. She spent her spare time crocheting, but she read widely and spoke four* languages. Cultivated people were astonished when they talked with...
...morning last week they found him dead. Dreadful marks seamed his long throat, marks that made clear that the naked hands of a man had strangled him. In the cage, near his huddled body, they found a man's overcoat, a blood-stained handkerchief. The ground in the vicinity bore testimony to a fearful struggle...
...careful to keep in mind the fact that Foreman Conant had undergone his trying experience at a trial that was evidently of very legalistically technical nature. They were careful to remember that juries at murder trials are called upon to exercise moral rather than intellectual discrimination. In fine, they bore in mind that Foreman Conant had flayed but one type of juridical procedure. Within that scope his comments seemed most pertinent...