Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard Hall's present site was once occupied by one of the most ancient of the College buildings, which also bore the name of the College's first benefactor and namesake. But in the year 1764 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Massachusetts, and a prudent General Court moved to Cambridge to escape the worst of the plague. In the midst of the winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library, including all save...
Gradually, the trend of Harvard education bore away from the rigidly defined classical preparation for he ministry. Electives, introduced over a century ago, reached their heyday 50 years later when a degree could be had merely by passing 18 courses, no two of which needed to be related...
...honor the big house-raising, the Pineville Bakery had donated a giant cake that bore on its icing a verse from the Second Book of Kings: "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed . . . and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." The "little chamber" that the 700 built that day for Pastor Kelly and his school turned out to be 19 brand-new, four-room cottages. By nightfall, as the people drove away, lights were already burning in some...
Mothers & Sons. Travelers arriving at Hong Kong from Shanghai told of people being hauled off trains and killed on the spot. Many an old grudge was being settled as servants accused former masters, employees denounced past employers, kinfolk bore witness against each other. The terror scorned the traditional Confucian concept of decent human relationship. Older people, heretofore respected for their years, were led through streets to prisons or to execution, and on the way Communist youth spat at them. In one Kwangtung province town a grey-haired man was forced to crawl on his knees, kowtow to groups...
Jockey Pete McLean broke REPETOIRE forwardly, but elected to move up gradually while racing out of harm's way on the outside. Turning into the stretch, he made his run at the front horse, INTENT, a 9-to-1 shot. REPETOIRE was forced wide as the leader bore out, recovered and had enough left to beat late-rushing BATTLE MORN (10-to-1) by a head in a modest 1:44⅔ Third was INTENT, running only the third race of his career and possibly a comer...