Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poland festered with misery. Wrote the Reich's governor at Posen to two minor officials: "For us there are no good or bad Poles. We are against all that is Polish. . . ." Bare statistics from Warsaw's ghetto bore eloquent testimony to Poland's suffering. Normally twice as many persons are born in the ghetto as die there each year. In June of this year only 396 were born. Four thousand, two hundred and ninety died...
Little Peter hated water: every time he passed over a bridge he trembled with fear. But when little Peter grew up to be Peter the Great he fell madly in love with water. Last week that love bore ironic fruit...
...Marksmen Ed Wylie, of New York City, and S. L. Hutcheson, of Greenwich, Conn.: the North American .20-gauge and all-bore skeet championships, respectively; from a field of 114 shooters at the Remington Gun Club, Lordship, Conn. Both broke 100 straight...
...been in delicate health since an operation for gallstones 15 months ago. Only a matter of supreme importance would have taken President Roosevelt's personal envoy back to his post at the Vatican last week. Such a matter, beyond doubt, was the message Envoy Taylor bore from his President to Pope Pius...
...took the draft to drag 30-year-old Carlton N. Krause from his home at Ogdensburg, Wis. (pop. 207). Before last spring Homebody Krause had never wandered far from his dairy farm, the woods, the tools he used to bore his own gun barrels. Only once had he seen the State's metropolis, Milwaukee, 115 miles from home...