Word: bend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eleven men play as a unit. I think the real beginning of a team spirit came after the Exeter game, when we began to realize that we had been playing only as individuals. If we feel that the whole Class is behind us as a team this common bend of sympathy will be more firmly cemented, and I think that I may safely prophesy a victory not only in the Princeton game tomorrow, but in the Yale game...
...individual, which have been the weapon of the demagogue and the ruin of true liberty so long as society has existed as an institution. The vast majority has provided for the minute minority irreconcilable to the conduct of war. Now we find that minute minority striving to bend the vast majority to its wishes. It is not content with its own freedom of choice. It will choose for the whole nation. That is their desired personal liberty. That is the freedom of choice which they proclaim...
...time has now come when all such nonsense should stop. The President of the United States has asked that a state of war with Germany be declared and there must be no more talk of neutrality. The obvious and paramount duty of every loyal American is to bend every effort towards aiding the Government in preparing for war against a nation which has issued a challenge "to all mankind...
...Department fails at first to see the advisability of forming a school here, the greatest pressure ought to be used to convince it that most efficient results can be obtained with the training school established on the spot. Until this is brought about we can only wait and bend every personal effort towards making ourselves well-trained officers...
Over in the Department of Psychology there is a little machine which, by a curve on a soot-covered surface, indicates the fatigue undergone when a subject tries rhythmically to lift a weight by flexing a finger. The subject bends his finger and pulls, till his finger will bend and pull no more; then the experimenter encourages him by suddenly crying in his ear: "Pull! Pull!" And lo and behold, in the fire of his aroused self, the subject can and does pull! All of which serves to illustrate the importance of mass meetings before, and a wild cheering section...