Word: bothering
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...schoolboys have a good team which has met defeat only twice--at the hands of Cambridge Latin and of Melrose High. In Hodder, the captain of the team, and in Harris at left wing, Newton has two men who may be expected to bother the yearlings' defense this afternoon...
Here is a man who voluntarily spurns the greatest privilege of citizenship:-- voting for the President of the United States. He asks why we should "bother to vote"! Mr. Chase, we "bother to vote" because we have backbone and because we care enough about this country of ours to do our woe bit to help it solve its difficulties. We are not spineless creatures; we are not spineless creatures; we are not so self-centered as to "despise" the men who are to guide us during the next four years...
...they disagree it is only in degree of contempt. Why then should those of us who are not professionally obliged to keep up the dismal pretense of enthusiasm about the wretched business--why should we waste time talking or thinking about the election, and why should we bother to vote? E. P. CHASE...
...this column succeeds in keeping before the eyes of undergraduates important contributions to modern literature, and relieves them of some of the bother connected with plowing through columns of daily papers in order to learn the facts regarding current publications, the editors will feel it is accomplishing the purpose for which it has been instituted...
...York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion dollars a year. This does not bother Congress. Like New York, it cares not how the millions are spent on pork, as long as they can watch a penny here and there to prove to the public how economical they are. Until an adequate budget system is evolved to take care of the millions as well...