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Word: bores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fast." As the Exposition bore down on the Naperville bend, 68-year-old Engineer Bill Elaine saw a gleaming yellow block light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Two Flyers | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...everything about the trip had been wonderful. WACs and Army nurses prepared baby formulas in a special diet kitchen. There were play pens, toys for older children, and a four-room section set aside for teen-age boys. The first meal was a whopping lunch which bore no relation to Army food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Distaff Invasion | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...militancy and tight organization, got only five seats. Most revolutionary was the election of 38 women, including Mrs. Shidzue Kato, the former Baroness Ishimoto, famed as the Margaret Sanger of Japan. At least 13 ballots were merely marked "More Food," one was cast for Harry Truman, and a dozen bore the write-in "General MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Progress Report, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...shake-up will come an advertising campaign to boost circulation (now 145,000, the lowest of Manhattan's nine dailies). Theme: it's a new PM, not the newspaper you think it is. Says Ingersoll: "If you're always crusading, you get to be a bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Pushing? | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Murray's hurry, beyond mere speed in his terpsichorean teachings, bore fruit with the advertisement which boasted that the school "has been approved to offer courses in social dancing. Ex-service men and woman who are eligible under the G.I. Bill of Rights may take this instruction in private or class lessons at their own convenience, during the day or evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dancing Instruction Under G.I. Bill O.K.'d For Vets in New York | 4/16/1946 | See Source »

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