Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Show-Off, Craig's Wife, Philip Goes Forth), learned to row on his native Schuylkill; won the singles sculling championship at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920; has 125 rowing championships to his credit. He married the female coach of water sports and canoeing at the University of Pennsylvania who bore him four children. Squash, golf, and handball are still his games...
...believe in the German mother who bore...
...prove that gentle, idealistic Governor Pearson was somehow a blackguard. Witness Yates, ousted Pearson assistant and a prime instigator of 'the investigation, produced an affidavit from an Anglican clergyman named Anson whom he described as "dean of the white ministers in the Islands." The Rev. E. G. Anson bore witness that Governor Pearson was "an awful liar, thief and hypocrite." Witness Yates also offered a letter he had received from a Roman Catholic priest named Leo St. Laurence. Wrote Father St. Laurence: ''It looks as if it is now a war, 'Pearsonites versus the Catholic Church...
...doubt it was suicide," said the police officer who found Ray Long in his Beverly Hills bedroom last week, dead in his pajamas, a hole in the roof of his mouth, a small-bore rifle nearby...
...Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia dispatched a scow to Long Island Sound to dump 620,000 slugs- representing a loss of $31,000 to the city-owned Independent Subway System alone -into the sea. The assorted slugs weighed three tons, consisted mainly of lead, iron, aluminum, brass, tin, linoleum. Some bore the slogan: "Roosevelt for President...