Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard Years. In 1912 Dr. Cushing became Professor of Surgery at Harvard, and head of the famous Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. His labors were phenomenal. He would rise shortly after seven, eat a light breakfast, work on his medical articles, then go to the hospital. One operation sometimes took him eight hours. He performed three or four such long operations each week...
Immediately after his election, Pius XII had received the first "obedience" of the Sacred College: each Cardinal in turn had knelt before him, election bent over the cross embroidered on his slipper. Returning from the balcony to the Sistene Chapel, he accepted a second "obedience," then on his throne received the homage of the papal household-including two of his nephews, Giulio and Marcantonio Pacelli, members of the Noble Guard...
Wary British officials declined comment until the President's reported words were confirmed (which they emphatically were not). There were suspicions that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government, still bent on appeasing the dictators, welcomed U. S. bolstering less enthusiastically than France...
...other honors. The undergraduate body recognizes them by common respect for participants. In choosing his activity, each student must be guided by his own interest and capabilities. But the Crimson likes to feel that it shelters under its skirts such a variety of activities that it can satisfy the bent of almost everyone...
Tuesday, December 22, the pair of Yardlings, with several classmates held a Christmas party under the auspices of the newly formed "Roaring Forties" Club. Following the celebration, the pair strolled into the Square ostensibly bent on going to a hockey game in a borrowed...