Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...product was inferior, that it spoiled in customers' hands before turning to wine as guaranteed. To defend itself the producing company exhibited testimonials from satisfied purchasers. One testimonial was from Senator Gould. From the U. S. Capitol in 1927 he had written: ". . . After a good deal of bother I got some very fair results. . . . The case of cordials . . . was very much appreciated, especially by the feminine side of the fam ily. ... As you know I come from a Prohibition state and I am supposed to be a prohibitionist but I am about as loyal to the Prohibition element...
...Renee Mathieu who is France's greatest woman amateur; Miss E. L. Heinie who lives and plays in South Africa; rosy Fraulein Aussem of Germany, and the other Californian Helen, Miss Jacobs, who strained her back a few days before the tournament but did not think it would bother her and between whom and Helen Wills is supposed to exist not only rivalry but a shade of dislike...
...seen these smiles and realize that they express a somewhat tolerant amusement which is far more dangerous to an organization's prestige than any more intense feeling ever can be. Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...
...stakes, but Engineer Kolster was proud of his position and his profession. When John Stone Stone, one of U. S. radio's experimental pioneers, offered Mr. Kolster a job in the Stone Laboratories, Mr. Kolster at first replied that he was a civil engineer and why should he bother with wireless telegraphy. Later he changed his mind...
...grounds of puerility. At least, he leads us to think so when he attacks an editorial in the CRIMSON "as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books" and in the same "criticism" tells us that "the surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously, instead of ignoring it as the students do themselves." But perhaps Mr. Long really believes what he has written is not the "bother of adults" and regards his "editorial" precisely as the students of Harvard regard it: merely a collection of meaningless invective abuse...