Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vice President Alben W. Berkley and Fiancee Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley bore up remarkably well under the strain of a full pre-wedding week. Recovering from flu in a St. Louis, hospital, Mrs. Hadley made every minute count by approving the final details of her trousseau (a blue wedding dress and eight other new outfits). Barkley was a passenger aboard an Air Force B-17 that narrowly missed a collision with a blimp near Washington's National Airport. Meanwhile, word reached the Vice President that St. Louis streetcar motormen, passing the home of his bride-to-be, were calling...
...Wolf and Ben Goldstein, left and right outsides on the forward line, provided the scoring. Rick Drake at center half, goalie Whoop Batchelder, and fullbacks Bill Harrop and Mike Scully bore the weight of an Eli attack that was vicious though sporadic...
...only people in Indonesia who were really contented were the soldiers of the Dutch army, who had been conscripted for unpopular service in a steaming, tropical land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel verlaten (Goodbye, we're pulling out of this mess) and Doe het self maar verder. Gaan naar moeder (Do it yourself. We're going home to mother...
...Hell presents Shaw's view of what life is all about, through the eyes of his seemingly incongrous spokesman, Don Juan. Shaw's Hell is the fulfilment of the senses; Heaven is the fulfilment of the mind. Thus, Heaven, as Dona Ana's father discovers, is a great bore to all but the men of genius whom the Life Force urges to greater and greater heights of self-knowledge and desire to improve the lot of humanity. In Hell, however, the conventional and dutiful are quite at home. The ephemeral, which they have sought before death, is in great abundance...
...ground (187 to 91). In fact, lack of defense against short passes was just about the only weakness Cornell showed. It was this that led Valpey to make short passes the key to his "game plan," and the fine showing the Crimson made certainly bore out Valpey's analysis...