Word: born
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...involved-beg for the opportunity to return and make good the debts and errors of a youthful stage in the life of an otherwise clean-cut & lovable boy of 27. Since our being together, he has never gambled or drunk-because I never have done either. ... I personally was born & bred in the West-and my reputation is flawless. I desire to know why I am wanted in California -if I am. I beg one chance to prove I can & have changed this boy's habits-and that he is entirely cognizant of the seriousness of his offense-although...
Your writers have seized upon this somewhat obsolete, but nevertheless respectable word, and have burdened it with a meaning which it never had and which, because of its derivation, it cannot properly possess. Any student of elementary Greek appreciates that this word signifies "born from light" or "arising as a result of light." It cannot be considered that it conveys the idea, as TIME'S editors wish, that a subject shows to good advantage in a photograph, or "takes a good picture...
CINCUS-designate Bloch, born to Czechoslovakian immigrant parents in Woodbury, Ky., is a sombre tight-lipped officer who has been cited for meritorious service in two wars, for rescuing Spaniards from Admiral Cervera's burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased...
...Zuppke was born in Berlin, German years ago. Like many good Germans, Herr Zuppke and wife immigrated to Milwaukee. Their son then just two years old. Sauerkraut and weiners couldn't boost young Bob over 150 pounds; he made the Wisconsin varsity, but he proudly broke his collar bone trying. He joined Kappa Sigma. His coaching post was at Muskegon, Mich...
...professor, who had been born and bred in Brookline, rubbed his nose and continued in his melodious cultured voice...