Word: pored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble, Off & On. But Sherman Billingsley was still tired. He had to pore over thousands of checks and his books to see if he could get himself out of the jam mathematically. And the law loomed just outside the Stork's door...
That we should pry far off yet be unraised; That we should pore, and dwindle as we pore...
...Foot. After he had decorated General Mongomery last week, blue-eyed, bald General Eisenhower returned to his headquarters, to pore over planners' plans, to check over staffmen's work...
Summer Session Director Harry Morgan Ayres oozes satisfaction from every wide-open July pore. War or no war, gas or no gas, more than 1,500 courses taught by nearly 500 teachers, plus New York City's assorted lures, still have great drawing power. Greying Anglo-Saxon Scholar Ayres, who began teaching at Columbia in 1908, must combine the talents of a hotelkeeper, a national planner, a circus ringmaster and a conventual supervisor of morals. He does...
...general atmosphere is a good deal better. And there is warm romantic melody in such songs as Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' and People Will Say, gay lilt in The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, humor in Pore Jud and I Cain't Say No, a roof-buster of an anthem in Oklahoma! If, compared to Lorenz Hart's at their best, Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics lack polish, so after all did frontier Oklahoma...