Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sliding from the Peak. Behind the swirling clouds of political dust that surrounded the farm situation, it was possible to locate and nail down some solid economic facts. Pieced together, they produced a picture of U.S. agriculture that bore little resemblance to the scene of despair conjured up amid cries of havoc...
...port of Alexandria last week, at piers sealed off from prying eyes, Egyptian longshoremen carefully uncrated a Trojan horse. It came from Czechoslovakia, but bore Moscow's greeting card...
...session, he had to submit a supplementary "crisis" budget which hustled out a summer of prosperity and ushered in a winter of what looked dismayingly like oldtime austerity, as practiced by Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain is not bust but suffering from too much boom, yet Butler's nostrums bore the same cramping old labels (Higher Taxes, Lower Consumption) as those prescribed by Old Austerity himself...
...Humanities 2 lectures in Sanders Theater for box seat, so that he could "survey the crop of girls from every angle." "For the first three weeks he learned little about the Odyssey. But after a while he sighed, the objects of his attention "found being beautiful a bore" and he started to listen to the lectures...
...Question of Filtration. Then there is a little-known aspect of human circulation on which Dr. Page and others have been working. It may go far to solve the riddle of how atherosclerosis begins. In addition to the direct blood flow down the bore of the arteries to its destination in the capillaries, parts of it also perfuse through the arterial walls. Thus they reach many of the body's tissues and supply them with nourishing chemicals...