Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Landis of the Law School, chairman of the Committee for Plan E bore the brunt of the attack, as his campaign slogan of the "People against the Politicians" was changed by Plan E opponents to "Landis against the People...
Hooked into a communications circuit to relay their warnings were the lines of 15 local telephone companies (to the vast pride of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s C.P. ["Old Man Mac"] McClure, retired, who installed the first telephone in the State). Off shore, Coast Guard cutters bore observers. At Craven County was ebullient Tom Haywood, who won brief fame by inventing a rotary kicking machine for citizens who should kick themselves. At New Bern was Cap'n Tom Daniel, 72, who at 52 insisted on fighting in the last war, came home minus...
...enough to break) the treaty under which his navy is restricted to 35% of Mother England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been able to seize Hong Kong...
Opening in London last week, On Borrowed Time was mercilessly damned. The London Times characterized it as "beyond the pale of criticism," the London News Chronicle as "trite, confused, unconvincing, callow, a barefaced, blue-eyed bore...
...imagination while advising the reader to follow his own reason, draw his own conclusions. An honest reader, if he believes that Shakespeare is junk, and can say why, does the cause of great literature less harm than the snobbish or timid who pretend to like writers who really bore them to death...