Word: bores
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...they faltered or doubted, the aims which they so soon achieved would still be far away; even this generation might still have been groping vaguely in the darkness. But they bore the torch unflinchingly, and passed it on glowing yet brighter than before. The torch now is ours, and it is we who must lift it high--not with strife, and bickering, and gloomy forebodings, but with calm trust and steadfast purpose. This is our heritage--this is our duty on the stage of life; that courage, truth, and light shall dwell forever in the land of the Pilgrims...
...such remote scientific knowledge, as the special problem just mentioned has established, be of any practical use? Who can tell? Many years elapsed before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...
...spring and fall of this year. In January, 1920, a definite announcement was made declaring that the recent recession in speculative activities led to the expectation of a check in the rise of prices early in the period between April and September. The marked drop of prices in April bore out this forecast surprisingly well. This astonishing accuracy has caused several large firms to base their financial policy entirely on the reports of the committee...
...Congress of Berlin, with Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina causing intense disappointment of the Serbs. Nevertheless, there was the Austrian alliance and its predominance in Serbia till the accession of Peter Kaigevyevich in 1903. Yet with all Serbia's troubles, the Jugo-Slav idea blossomed and bore fruit in the minds of the leaders and there was linguistic reform and a literary revival, despite jealousies, religious feelings, the Austrians playing off one against the other...
...entered at the front door quite properly and climbed laboriously through department after department all the way from Hebrew E1. to Med. Sci. 3 whatever that may be. It profited us nothing. Nothing seemed in the least more interesting than anything else, except possibly French 15 hf, which bore the meaty legend "Tu. at 9." Getting up at 9 once a week wouldn...