Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could boast were a few small pigs, rats and native, skunklike creatures. In 1928 an Indian government expert visited the Andamans and decided that what the islands needed was a properly decorative quadruped. He introduced a pair (male & female) of dainty spotted chital deer. With no natural enemies to bother them, the chital deer multiplied wonderfully. They were lovely to look at, and they were soon making a mess of the Andaman Islands, eating the forests bare and ruining the native farms...
...World. The result of all this, according to Critic Graham, is a dangerous oversimplification. He disapprovingly quotes some of Merton's advice to his readers-"Do everything you can to avoid the amusements and the noise and the business of men ... do not read their newspapers ... do not bother with their unearthly songs." In short-Graham summarizes-"become a Trappist-Cistercian monk while living in the world...
Many Chicagoans thought Ryerson was giving a gentle hint to his fellow bank director, Montgomery Ward's 79-year-old Chairman Sewell Avery. If so, the dig did not bother Avery, but it did stir up an argument among other elderly Chicago business leaders. Said Wilson & Co.'s 84-year-old Chairman Thomas E. Wilson: "I suppose if a 66-year-old man thinks he is old, that's his opinion. Personally, I think it is much too young to retire." Snorted 86-year-old Real Estate Man John E. Scully: "Better wear out than rust...
Last week, as he packed his bags to leave town, ex-Teacher Fund admitted that he knew there would be repercussions ("Everybody who is a little different is considered an eccentric"). But the repercussions in Princess Anne did not bother him much. His real ambition in life, said he, was to get a job with a jazz orchestra - playing the trumpet: "I hope never to have to teach again...
...Barlow's system, the 8.6 mm. waves will stick to the inside of the pipe. On the outside surface travel somewhat longer waves (10,000 megacycles). If properly started on their journeys, the two sets of waves will not bother one another. The metal of the pipe can carry electric power, and neither the inside nor outside waves will interfere with...