Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Sam got into the contracting business, he had had so little schooling that he could hardly read contracts. But that did not bother him. As he once said: "What the hell, I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-&-paper work." Now he can read well enough for his purposes: he just skips the big words...
...anything." He still uses his own unorthodox fingering. "I seem to have a gift," he says. "If I hear a bar or a couple of notes of a melody I always seem to know what is next. I seem to go so fast that I don't bother with the music...
...reason the show soared: there was never a message to weigh it down. Children, no matter how solemn, seldom worry about what their paintings mean; they are too busy deciding how the pictures should look. Grownups can bother their heads about the meaning-and some do. In a book published last week (Painting and Personality, University of Chicago; $10), Psychologists Rose Alschuler and La Berta Hattwick read some big meanings into little dabblings. Among them: emotionally well-adjusted little children incline to paint free, open forms, in warm colors. Unhappy ones often choose cold colors (especially black), paint tightly enclosed...
Keeping the supply of University secretaries at a constant level is one of the bardest and most constant problems the Personnel department has to face. These harassed employers don't bother to keep a record of just how long their employees last or why they leave, but know only too well that they are called upon to make well over one hundred replacements each year in the College secretarial staff alone...
...first time, Victor Manuel learned that travelers are supposed to have passports and visas to cross borders. But people did not bother to explain things to him. They just locked him up in jail and wrote letters about him. In the end he was sent back to Mexico. There he served a jail term. Then the Mexicans persuaded Guatemala to take him back. In Guatemala he served another jail term...