Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later, undeterred by the fact that a native laborer stabbed his foreman in the back. Professor Hassan opened four other tombs, including that of Prince Khnumba-ef, Chephren's son, whose name means "His soul is the Creator"; and of Kishnofer, a provincial governor whose burial place bore the inscription, "First under the King...
Another trophy was a fragment of a marble sign, probably from the Library of Trajan, which bore this warning: "No book shall be taken out. We have sworn it! The library will be open from the first hour until the sixth...
...Officers' Training Corps unit. In most schools benefiting by public land grants under the Morrill Act of 1862, R.O.T.C training for underclassmen is compulsory. Old stuff to most educators are the perennial kicks against it by boys who think either that fighting is wrong or drilling is a bore (TIME, April 6 et ante). New stuff, however, was the action Oregon's adults took last week to end the particularly loud squawks against R.O.T.C. which students in two state colleges have been raising for years. On a proposal to make R.O.T.C. voluntary in the two schools. Oregon...
...highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named Sarah Whitelam, who bore him a son before the twelve-months voyage was over. Determining to take her back to England and marry her as soon as her sentence was served, he got a berth on a whaler, found that he could not return to New South Wales. An escaped convict told him that Sarah...
...daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist Goldberg quit drawing altogether, devoted full time to his writing instead...