Word: bourn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undiscovered country from whose bourn...
...Silvanus Bourn writes, in another epistle, that he would have to borrow a pair of shoes to walk to Boston and that to buy a new pair would cost 30 dollars. During the winter of 1777-78 an order was issued to close the college due to the fuel shortage...
Joachim Gottschalk had often played Hamlet at Berlin's Deutsches Theater. Last October the Nazi Party demanded that he divorce his Jewish wife. Joachim Gottschalk decided to flee the oppressor's wrong, to brave the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. Joachim Gottschalk, his Jewish wife and their young child died by their own hands...
...West's most noted duel, in 1859, by California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry; Nevada's Senator William Sharon, Comstock Lode proprietor who entertained President Grant on gold plate in 1879; California Circuit Court Judge M. Hall McAllister, who sired Socialite Ward McAllister; William M. Bourn, whose money bought the Killarney Lakes for the Irish Free State...