Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Planning Board doesn't know how bitterly most of Harvard feels towards this mess. We don't bother to enlighten them for we usually can successfully dodge for four years. But the Board has promised serious consideration of this project if the student body assures them it is fed with having its toes run over...
...time he leaves, he has picked up pearls which, in London, net him all the King's Pardoning he needs, and thousands of pounds sterling into the bargain. The ending is technically happy but, like the treatment throughout, perceptibly tougher and more intelligent than such stories generally bother to be. Indeed Benjamin Blake turns out to be not merely an engaging adventure piece but an articulate tract against feudalism, both sexual and social...
...inches high. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, causes headaches, dizziness, insomnia, leads eventually to hardened arteries and overburdened hearts. Hypertension kills more people a year-some 375,000 in the U. S. -than cancer. Specialists call patients with high blood pressure "hypertensives." Dr. Irvine H. Page did not bother with these ABCs of the malady when last week he delivered a lecture in Manhattan on "The Nature and Treatment of Hypertension." Dr. Page, a top-notch high pressure man from Indianapolis, showed that great strides have been taken in his specialty in the short space of seven years. Doctors used...
...many steps, the noise of a machine gun split the air; so he went back into the house and suppressed his curiosity for that evening. The next morning he learned that a man named Kerensky had overthrown the Czar's government and set up a republic. He didn't bother to go to the office. At the age of twenty-nine, he found himself without...
...himself to Commander in Chief of the Army and pinned a colonel's epaulets on his shoulders. To Sergeant Jose Pedraza he gave the national police, and Sergeant Angel Gonzalez got the Navy. When he offered Sergeant Pedraza the rank of major, that worthy replied: "Don't bother. I've already made myself colonel." A compromise rank of lieutenant colonel was finally agreed upon for Sergeants Pedraza and Gonzalez, but they resented their inferiority to Batista, and rivalry began...