Word: bend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much the vagabond. He offers no excuse; he merely asks indulgence for one of his failings. He will try to mend his ways. But before he departs to try to become a student let him again suggest that if anyone would enjoy himself he could do worse than bend his steps toward Symphony Hall tonight since-Let us be chivalrous whatever be the cost-it is Radcliffe Night...
...Duce was mobilizing Albania against Jugoslavia, he took shrewd measures to cover his tracks and conceal his plans. In London, Berlin, the Italian Ambassadors ostentatiously informed the British and German governments, likewise the press, that Jugoslavia was rapidly mobilizing last week against Albania; but that the Italian Government would bend its every effort toward peace...
...centenary of the death of a music master whose affliction was even greater, for a musician, than blindness. Ludwig van Beethoven was bodily sound but became stone deaf. As his hearing dwindled, his conducting, which he would not give up, became more and more ludicrous. He would bend over his keys to hear what he played until his orchestra quite lost sight of him. At the crescendoes he could and would straighten up, crouch up, stand up, finally leap up off the floor itself in passionate release...
...relaxation from this prescribed labor, however, the Vagabond will find time this morning to bend his steps toward Harvard Hall, where there will be two lectures on literature, the first of these taking place at 10 o'clock in Harvard 2 where Professor Murdock will speak on Nathaniel Hawthorne. At 11 o'clock the Vagabond will remove to Harvard 3 to hear Professor Murray on Sheridan...
Brushing. "Don't drag the toothbrush from one area to another. The bristles bend and sag and don't do their work."-Dr. H. H. White, Chicago...