Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acting Senior Tutor of Dunster House did not assume office--he was carried in feet first. A group of students picked him up, bore him into his official residence, and deposited him on the vestibule with a loud bump. Since then, Dunster men have overrun his place, arranging his furniture, and drinking his excellent sherry. And although Carroll F. "Stan" Miles is heard to complain that his comfortable quarters have become a Central Terminal, everybody knows he loves...
...Hollywood standards it was a minor production (the Inaugural Committee reckoned the cost at just under $1,000,000), but it had drama, comedy and pageantry that Hollywood could not touch. Critics might find faults in it-the parade was miles too long, the balls were a crashing bore, and there were a few embarrassing performers-but the faults only underlined the fact that this was a great and wonderful rite...
...Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood) is 33 years old-a bearded oldster among thrillers. But though it does its hissing through false teeth and glares from a glass eye, it is still strangely animate-a good deal of a mess, but only now & then a bore...
...week's end, Eisenhower said farewell to Columbia University. On Sunday afternoon, the Pennsylvania Railroad's Business Car No. 90, the same car that in 1945 carried Ike on his return home from his World War II European command, bore him, Mamie and family toward Washington, D.C., and the helm of state...
Even after the Houses were built, the Crime still bore malice to the system. The CRIMSON castigated both the sublimity of Lowell high tables, which it labelled "aristocratic tendencies" and the ridiculousness of the rabbit coat-of-arms used on the wrong side of the Plympton tracks...