Word: bending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brightness and composition of the sun's fiery corona. One of the first experimental confirmations of the Theory of Relativity came from an eclipse in 1919. Albert Einstein had predicted that, because the mass of a heavy body imposed a curvature on the space around it, starlight would bend as it passed by the sun. Ordinarily stars close to the sun could not be seen. But, during the eclipse, a star which was actually at the edge of the sun's darkened disk appeared a small distance away from...
Leroy (pronounced Leeroy) Haynes grew up in South Bend, Ind., where he sang in the Baptist Church, hung around the Notre Dame football field to run errands for the late Knute Rockne, learned to talk and dress like a college boy. Six years ago, when he was 18, he went to Los Angeles to live with his sister. His brother-in-law persuaded him to try professional boxing in 1932. Last year, when Joe Louis arrived in Los Angeles to fight Lee Ramage, he offered Leroy Haynes a job as sparring partner. Haynes refused, offered to fight Louis instead. Louis...
...flounced into the bathroom, shot herself in the breast with a .22 rifle. A suicide note was found. Day after the shooting, which caused only a minor wound, the two renewed announcement of their engagement, said the suicide story was bosh, that the shooting was an accident. In South Bend, Ind. Footballer William Shakespeare, who played three years in Notre Dame's backfield without injury, went picnicking, stepped in a woodchuck hole, lamed himself so thoroughly he had to take to crutches...
...other group are for or against war makes little difference. Wars come irrespective of the wishes of those who must fight them. The basic cause of war today is the world-wide search for markets for the goods turned out by industry. He who would eliminate war must bend his energies to eliminating that which causes war. And so long as goods are produced for sale, there will be capitalists, who, whether they like it or not, must expand or lose out in the battle of competition...
...mother died, and his father was less use than ever. To narrow Julian's world still further, aging, piglike Henry got himself a wife, a pert young thing who had no use for Julian. He was reduced to the companionship of the squatters' colony down on the Bend. Though Julian and Henry's wife thought they disliked each other heartily, little by little they changed their minds. Almost before Julian knew it, he was her lover. He hated the deception, hated her caution that would not leave a comfortable respectability to run away with him. When Henry...