Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women who are . . . scientific . . . are a race set apart ... a neutral people," in the opinion of Albert Einstein. And no neuter-lover is he. He was divorced 15 years ago from his first wife, Clara, Serbian mathematician, with whom he studied at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute and who bore his two sons, Albert and Edward...
...second day of the trial Professor Ramzin concluded his confession with a four-hour address, bore out all the contentions of Prosecutor Krylenko, summed...
...Socialist grabbed the Nationalist dog whip. Struggling and writhing the mass of embattled Deputies and journalists bore down upon a large plate glass door, shat tered the glass, broke through the wood work and spilled the entire scrimmage out onto the lawn of the Palais-Bourbon...
Married at 17 to her cousin, an engineer, Alexandra Kollontay bore one child, now an electrical engineer in Sweden. She then went alone to Zurich, hotbed of radicalism. Returning to Russia she founded the first working women's club at St. Petersburg in 1907, wrote The Social Basis of the Woman Question. Her next book was the monumental, 600-page Motherhood and Society, points from this last being later embodied into the laws of Norway. She speaks 15 languages, writes warm novel ettes which prudes have called "too realistic." Present...
...something which made him want to stop the train-a swamp full of giant iris such as a Paul Bunyan might have planted. Soon as possible Dr. Small went back to the spot with two botanical friends. The iris grew seven feet tall, like young trees. They bore immense rainbow colored blossoms. The botanists floundered with difficulty about the swamp, uprooted several thousand specimens, sent them to the New York Botanical Garden...