Word: bend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beside a bend in the Smoky Hill River, near Sharon Springs, Kan., a white cow observed one of last week's sunrises, ruminatively as was her wont. But she never finished that morning's cud. At 7 o'clock the ground yawned beneath her with a rumbling roar and she was swallowed up, with a section of her pasture, into the bowels of the earth. That at least was what people thought had happened...
...carry out its full program without heeding the cries of the priests. Nothing worries me in all their maneuvers. Nothing interests me in these intrigues. I declare solemnly before the entire nation that the energy that the Government is developing and that it will continue to develop will not bend before any pressure, before any threat, and as long as I am President the constitution of 1917 will be effective...
...Formation of the Union to A Handbook of the War (with A. 0. Lovejoy) has edited (beside the 28 volumes mentioned) over a score of volumes of historical sourcebooks, histories, lives of statesmen and the Macmillan Co.'s exhaustive American Year Book (with W. M. Schuyler). He will now bend his energies upon South America, Australia and Theodore Roosevelt. In June, Harvard will bid him godspeed, call him "emeritus...
...tank of oxygen standing on the bedside table. Consciousness did not leave him entirely. He saw facing him on an opposite wall the sorrowful, pain-wracked figure of the Crucified. He saw his two nephews, Father Joseph Mercier and Professor Charles Jean Mercier, of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. He smiled wanly at them...
...steam roller. The machine has already proved its usefulness in deep snow previously unnavigable. One such machine has done the work which formerly required three teams. In Oregon a stage line uses a snow motor in its two daily round trips over the Mackenzie Pass between Eugene and Bend. Orders are already in hand from Canada, Norway, Sweden, Alaska. The Hudson Bay Co. has ordered a supply to maintain communications with its most northern fur-trading stations. The Royal Northwest Mounted Police have also gone into the market for snow motors, and may cease to be horsemen and become chauffeurs...