Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five of the capsized fisherman had drowned before the swimmers reached them, but it was no trick at all for Kahanamoku and his followers to buoy up 13 survivors, drag them across their boards, catch a wave and rush their gasping passengers ashore in relays. The exhibition bore out, surprisingly soon, a recent pronouncement of the U. S. President (TIME, June 1, THE PRESIDENCY), that swimming "in itself constitutes a useful accomplishment...
...years immediately following the War, credit in the U. S. was none too plentiful and U. S. investors were unfamiliar with foreign loans. As a result, the foreign bond issues brought out during this period bore, as a rule, very high coupon rates...
Senators, Representatives received circulars. They bore a return address indicating a building on Capitol Hill, close to the House Office Building. They offered the services of a "personal publicity bureau" in obtaining publicity "where you most need it and where it will be most effective...
...What does this meeting mean? What language does it speak to you and all Italians? It means an appeal for concord, addressed to all those who bore arms for their country. It speaks the language of peace to all Italians who suffered in the long war. We must again find the luminary symbol of love and make it the lodestar of our destiny. We must always remember the sacrifices we all sustained, not forgetting for a single moment the brotherhood of blood which united all soldiers in the trenches. To disarm among men of the same blood means...
...Bach Festival in Bethlehem results from the musical inheritance of its citizens-descendants of Moravian pioneers from Bohemia who packed up their fiddles, their trombones, came to the Colonies in the late 17th Century. On board the dipping cockleshell that bore them o'er the ocean's watery floor, they chanted a hymn...