Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee, in recording its disapproval of a University subsidy, suggested that an advertising campaign "could be handled by a good advertising agency" to raise money for the trips. It further authorized the Bend to present a concert in the Yard in May, at which a table might be set up to accept contributions...
Polly Seliger's "The Bond" is not so effective, yet its complete sincerity breaks through the fumbling descriptions and little awkwardness. The bend is between a mother and her small girl, and the story is refreshing in its lack of any sort of artifice and in its genuine communication of the child's knowledge that she is loved. Miss Seliger makes the mistake in marring the directness of her story by a final twist, but even that might be excused on the grounds that it is the child's realization that she will never again to be loved so completely...
Then Eduard Benes swore in the new ministers. When the President and the Premier started to shake hands in parting, they found that they stood quite far apart; they had to bend over a long way to make contact...
...Indianapolis, the Greenback Party, established in 1874 to fight for "a sound money system," announced its 1948 nominees: for President, John G. Scott, 69, a farmer of Craryville, N.Y.; for Vice President, Granville B. Leeke, 58, a maintenance man in a South Bend, Ind. lathe factory...
...away among the paper's stockpile of photographic cuts. One journal discovered Wes Fesler's face in the closet and started forthwith to bring the well-known Ohio State mentor to Cambridge. Another found Frank Leahy's countenance on hand, but went through the formality of calling the South Bend shepherd on the telephone before laying any plans for his proposed trip eastward...