Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1795, when Louisiana's Etienne de Bore grew the first U.S. sugar cane for commercial use, cane crops have been harvested, like cotton, by hand. Negroes mow their way through the cane fields with knives like tropical machetes. Efforts have been made to mechanize the reaping of both cotton and sugar. Several cotton-pickers have been invented which have proved that they can pick cotton, but their practical efficiency and adaptability have been seriously disputed, and they have so far made no visible inroads on the South's labor economy...
...discipline in itself, particularly if they are responsible for the result. But he does not take into consideration the fact that it is only when a student is genuinely interested that he will drill and grind at a subject, otherwise he is apt to be merely a hard-working bore...
...previous series, Reporter Clifford Blackburn did most of the heavy work, bore down especially hard on WPA loafing and "incompetence." Last week the Tribune printed an editorial acknowledging "compliments" from letter-writers on its WPArticles, but nowhere in its columns appeared any reference to the week's biggest news about its series...
...throne of England. Third son of George III, he had no great expectation during his youth of becoming England's monarch. As the Duke of Clarence, he bestowed his ardors on a Mrs. Jordan, an actress, to whom he was faithful for many years and who bore him twelve children. At Teddington, not far from London, he used for his extraordinary menage a charming and spacious 18th Century brick palace. When the death of his niece, Princess Charlotte, moved him up to second place as a regal candidate, he kicked Mrs. Jordan out. After ascending the throne, he lived...
Most successful case of artificial in semination, said Dr. Pelzman, was a Chicago woman who bore two artificially conceived children, has the constant pleasure of hearing her unknowing friends say: "They look just like their father...