Word: bent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...could tell us something of the great part our people ought to play in this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner, bent on "making out a case" against the administration. In his attacks on Wilson he has not once broken the monotony of his dignified invective by a single courteous acknowledgment of the difficulties of the President's position, or of the partial success of his labors. Not once has he risen...
...business world today, and in his knowledge of conditions at Dartmouth, gleaned from his service in the business world, and in the realm of collegiate thought throughout the country, approximates the specialist to some extent, without cramping his abilities by a narrowing of his field of vision. He is bent on accomplishing the great and far-sighted thing. He would have men of higher education less trained for selfish and individualistic successes, than for their collective influence for good in the business community...
Just then we heard a particularly nasty old whistler go over and saw him light on the road among the trees just where the road bent to the left. A few moments later we arrived on the spot...
Among the forces impelling the rising tide of appreciation, the quality of the teaching body is paramount. But we cannot refrain from also mentioning the successive opening and harmonious co-operation of the hospitals in the immediate vicinity of the School buildings. The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Robert Brigham, the Children's and Infant Hospitals, the Samaritan, the Cancer, and Psychiatry Hospitals, the Dental School, the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, and the Angell Animal Hospital are all now in active operation, clustered about the School, and the Lying-In Hospital has bought land and is about to build. These have...
...Yale freshman game will receive their numerals. They are as follows: John Alden Beaman, of Princeton; Rufus Hallowell Bond, of Everett; Edward Livingston Burrill, Jr., of New York, N. Y.; Edward Lawrence Casey (captain), of Natick; Hamilton Coolidge, of Brookline; Philip Henry Currier, of Wellesley Hills; Winslow Bent Felton of Haverford, Pa.; Charles Fairchild Fuller, of New York, N. Y.; Robert Ellsworth Gross, of West Newton; James Wilbert Henderson, of Cambridge; Gorham Hubbard, Jr., of Boston; Norman Howes Kerr, of Brookline; John Langdon Leighton, of Monadnock, N. H.; Robert McAllister Lloyd, Jr. (manager), of New York, N. Y.; Willard Wise...