Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representative Kelly (Republican) of Pennsylvania, was obliged to turn away a pension seeker. Saying that he "thought such patriotic service should be rewarded," Mr. Kelly was yet obliged to inform the applicant that Uncle Sam had no special pensions for mothers who bore twins...
Professor G. H. Palmer '64 and Professor F. N. Robinson, associates of Professor Winter's at the University; the Reverend E. J. Dennen, head of the Episcopal City Mission; Mr. C. S. Thomas '97 of the Atlantic Monthly Company, and Mr. A. J. Garceau '91 also bore witness to the value of Professor Winter's service...
...Hugo Stinnes. Herr Stinnes is not difficult to approach. Mr. Lee spoke with him for two hours in one of his hotels which bore signs at the door, French and Belgians Will Not Be Accommodated. Stinnes said that his workmen in the Ruhr continually urge him to allow them to rise up and throw the French neck and crop out of the country, but he always counsels nonresistance." Peaceful though the occupation of the Rhineland may look on paper, it is real war in the feeling it arouses in the people of the territory...
...some reason Mr. Munsey did not think it necessary to explain the consolidation so much to the readers of The Sun who were presumably as much concerned. On Saturday, June 2, The Globe published an editorial headed "Finis." The following Monday, the consolidated paper came out. It bore the names and trade marks of both papers, but it appeared in the type of The Sun and with The Sun's " make-up." Articles began two columns wide on the front page, and after a few lines dwindled away to one column width-as they did in The Sun. Evidence...
...State University along with the science of making a hundred bushels of wheat grow where ten grew before. Then turning to the other camp, he would have them produce this literature which is to be the force. They should appreciate the work that our pioneers have done. "For the 'bore' of 1850, the plow and hammer; for his sons, the pursuit of happiness." It is they who have laid the foundations for the present generation. Be sure, O present generation, that you do not stray too far from the "moral idealism" or these sturdy forebears who did not suffer from...