Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diamonds are not merely gems; they are also the hardest substance known to man, therefore the keystone of machine-tool production. In making automobile, aircraft, other products based on complete interchangeability of parts, only diamonds can bore pistons and connecting rods, dress grinding wheels to the necessary exactness. Diamond dies draw ignition wire to uniform size. Diamonds test the hardness of alloys in razor-blade and ice-skate factories. Diamonds tip the big drills that find gold under layers of rock. Diamonds cut tombstones and glass. Of the world's diamond production of around two and a half tons...
...write. One (an indispensable one) had money: a Yale ('28) esthete whose Manhattan family helped manage the Revolution (1776) and has since been so well-satisfied with itself that it remembers the great Henry James, whom it once put up as a house guest, merely as a great bore...
...cigaret case bore the autographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hitler, Lloyd George, etc. Gandhi signed it when he promised to carry no more cigarets therein...
...Governor on the Democratic ticket: eleven-including Busman Burton Schoepf, who partly financed his campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that...
...accurate undergraduate opinion upon the courses normally open to Freshmen. This is the way in which '43 can pass on its heritage to '44, and if by the third page the task begins to pall, think only of the effort required to tally the results; it may be a bore for you, but it's a pain in the neck...