Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks Fulton Bond padded about the building undetected. For a bed he had stacks of dusty documents and old law books. One night he fell asleep on a ledge. A shoe dropped off, was picked up by a policeman who did not bother to investigate its source. Early next morning Negro Bond hunted through offices until he found another pair of shoes which fitted him. Later he discovered a warm overcoat owned by the Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, appropriated...
...didn't bother about tickets," grinned the President shrewdly. "He just got elected...
...scant year and a half, yet Dr. Rothney asserts confidently that their records up to the present time vindicate his theory. Just why success in life should depend on a boy's employment or non-employment within two years of graduating from high school, Dr. Rothney did not bother to explain...
...apparently know nothing about Shakspere. The bang of the door upon his angry retreat is an effective spanking administered to our abysmal ignorance. After a minute or two we laugh, because we realize that class attendance is poor that morning, and that "Kitty" doesn't want to bother with a lecture...
...Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. Forty years ago a British amateur named Denning spotted a faint blur in the constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index Catalog (1895). With better cameras and telescopes I. C. 342 was found to have faint arms. Then these arms were seen to be tremendously long and spiraling. Later the nebula was revealed as much...