Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich and peculiar beauty, everywhere adorned the countryside and added to the general welfare by serving as gasoline filling-stations. The cult strongly emphasized reverence to local saints, who were all bidden by their Order to practice the trades either of grocer or of druggist; and every public conveyance bore testimony to the humble but influential ministering angels. This spiritual movement finally disposed of the economic man and even made some progress toward suppressing the economic housewife. Its importance has not yet been grasped by Abyssinian historians, but the Report does full justice to it and lays especial stress...
...boom, boom, boom crashed in martial notes through the air, followed by the appalling noise of drum fire: boom, boom, drum, drum, drum, boom, boom, etc. Long lines of tanks ambled across the broken lines spittin fire to the accompaniment of the chugging engines. Behind, great waves of infantry bore down upon the enemy who were driven back of Soissons, their communication severed and the battle ended, the first of a final series which terminated the War in a victory for the Allies on November...
Chairman Sophie Irene Loeb, President of the Child Welfare Board, began the speechmaking, all of which bore upon uniform national laws concerning child protection and widows' pensions. Her point: Though many local groups agitate for the desired laws, no national body directs or helps these groups. That direction will be the task of the Child Welfare Committee...
...Constantinople, said report, mentioning no names, a respected Bey became, in a single day, the father of seven infants: two of his wives gave birth to twins; the third bore triplets...
...Warren William, a discovery of theirs, looks like John Barrymore, and brought to the central part a personality that whispers of a sound future. For students and for sincere followers of the stage, the production is almost a necessity. The general public will probably regard it as an unnecessary bore...