Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Loyalist resistance in northern Catalonia collapsed, and in a swift advance northward from Gerona the Rebel Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco occupied Figueras, for eleven days the fourth capital of Loyalist Spain. As last as their transport could keep up with them, they bore down on the frontier towns of Port-Bou, La Junquera and Puigcerda. It was only a matter of hours before the Generalissimo would wipe out the only remaining Loyalist territory in northern Spain and be master of the Spanish side of the French-Spanish frontier from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean...
...mothers who bore illegitimate children in New York City last year, 96 were girls under 17, one a girl of 11. Many of these girls were unaware, when they were seduced, that they might have babies...
...fellow countrymen watched with calmness the butchering of Armenians, for decades -while Turkey was a British ally. They bore patiently through the years the sufferings of the Hindu, while England bled white that rich nation. They exhibited stoic calm while the Irish were starved, killed, ground down. The same calm was exhibited in the case of the Boers, and while the Russian ally of Britain was knocking off some million Christians. But now, NOW, the villain is an enemy -and a much and rightly feared one-of England, and hark to the uproar...
...illustrating the R-metathesis common in English and other Germanic languages. That Mr. Scrymgeour knows how to pronounce his name, or that ancestors of both of us were skirmishers and huntsmen in Scotland "afore the Saxons landed," I do not doubt; but a Scot who supposes that these forbears bore our present, or any other, established surnames must have a head rather less than hard...
...friends that he was elected president of the Oswego Business Men's Club. But at school life was less smooth. Egged on by some still resentful parents, rowdy boys cut Principal Attig's telephone wires, strewed his papers, fired his wastebasket. unhinged doors. All this Principal Attig bore patiently. He cracked no heads, said nothing to parents or school board, tried to solve his problem alone. He also refused a better job. remarking grimly: "I must stay and give Oswego the educational program it is worthy...