Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winding its endless filament of space-time around the sun, the earth swung this week squarely between the sun and the moon. Earth's shadow did not turn the moon entirely dark, because enough sunlight was bent around the earth by atmospheric refraction to illuminate the satellite dimly. Since long red wavelengths of sunlight pass through layers of atmosphere more easily than short blue wavelengths, the color of the eclipsed moon was a dark, dull, coppery...
...Warren Club: R. Brooke Alloway, Columbus, Ohio; Francis K. Buckley, Portland, Maine; Charles A. Hastings, Garner, Iowa; William S. Hyde New Castle, Pennsylvania, James H. Keet, Jr., Springfield, Missouri; and Mark E. True, Council Bluffs, Iowa, For the Holmes Club: Horace B. Bent, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Ward B. Coe, Riderwood, Maryland; William H. Morris, Rochester, New York; Horace G. Nebeker, Ogden, Utah; Thomas J. Miller, Verona, new Jersey, and James A. Moore, California, Maryland...
...Soma Weiss, associate professor of Medicine in the Medical School, has been appointed Physician-in-Chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Dr. C. Sidney Burwell, Dean of the School, announced today...
...years ago, Professor Einar Meulen-gracht, chief physician of Bispebjaerg Hospital in Copenhagen, examined a 71-year-old Swedish engineer who had lost four inches and was slowly shrinking back to boyhood height. So brittle had his bones become that once when he bent to pick up a heavy weight he heard his spine crack. To bolster up his telescoped vertebrae doctors had tried three different leather corsets, three fabric corsets with iron stays, as well as heavy doses of Vitamin D, calcium, and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the patient had always had sufficient calcium in his diet...
...compelled Yardlings to take several courses they cared nothing about has been swept away. Instead ambitious Freshmen come out of the hills and waste no time in getting to grips with the subject of their choice. Courses in French literature or musical appreciation have no appeal for young men bent on becoming engineers or economists and not realizing that many courses in their field are better saved to the year of Divisionals...