Word: bendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back would the fingers of Freak Krao bend...
...cheek-pouches in which she could carry food. Her fingers would bend until they lay flat on the back of her hand. She had two marmosets which she fondled like children, and indeed they bore a noticeable resemblance to her; they would sit in her lap, gazing with sad eyes into her underslung face. She spent her spare time crocheting, but she read widely and spoke four* languages. Cultivated people were astonished when they talked with...
John Corsey grew up the tensest little aristocrat of all, with passions to match his principles; to assault them; never to bend them, but eventually to break them, and break him. He was the kind of little boy who hides the humiliation of undeserved punishment. As a young man he seared in fire the hand with which he struck his friend. He rode at perilous water-jumps because he was afraid of them. He quit law because he could not find in it a way to make the world finer...
...bend in the river favored J. A. Brown and Cambridge. Hugging the, bank, he called for 31 to the minute. Oxford hit up a game 32 and rowed it nicely if strenuously to stay in the race. Then the watchers on the shore saw something happen to Oxford. H. R. A. Edwards, the freshman No. 5, appeared to pull his chin down on his chest turtlewise. His shoulders sagged forward, his oar dragged. In a bit, he was rowing well again, but the race was over. Gliding along four lengths ahead, Cambridge spurted at the end, came within a minute...
Nevertheless two shells were launched, and six class crews took turns in rowing upstream as far as the first bend. It is unlikely that the University crews will be able to row in shells today either...