Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radcliffe species, however, invariably use the bent arm method, pressing the textbooks to their heart, as it were. They regard the books as the dearest things they have on earth, and take pride in carrying a goodly assortment of volumes about...
...obviously not a proton, yet its track was about six times as heavy as could be expected from an electron. It was clearly ticketed as an X-par-ticle. Counting the fog droplets as carefully as he could and taking into consideration the track's curvature as bent by a magnetic field, Dr. Street figured its mass at 130 times the mass of the electron-with a probable error of 25% either...
Hopeful of mending this situation, Mr. Rosten applied for an $1,800 Social Science Research Council field fellowship, for 16 months stalked Washington reporters at work, bent elbows with them at the National Press Club bar, came away from the Capital with a neo-scientific cross section of 127 (out of over 200) men who tell the country what the Government is doing...
...until two years later that they met, on a staircase backstage in Manhattan's Hudson Theatre, where they were both rehearsing for Maid of Money. That was the first of the 21 plays in which they have since appeared together. At their meeting courtly Alfred Lunt bent to kiss Miss Fontanne's hand, flopped down the staircase. The play tried out in Washington, flopped too. The romance was more durable. They remained in Washington with George C. Tyler's company, played there in A Young Man's Fancy, and parted, Miss Fontanne to Chicago with...
...followers could also take pleasure in Artist Jules's restrained, luminous color. Best pictures: Little Tailor, showing, through the huge foreground frame of a sewing machine, a pallid gnome bent over his stitching; Mine Baseball, in which the figures of the players are dark on a field yellow with late afternoon sunlight against a dark background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive...