Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second semester a student should be able to follow his own bent more thoroughly than he can at the present time, and allow his imagination freer play in criticism, poetry, journalism, or wherever his interest lies. In addition, several weeks might be devoted to speech-making upon any topic the student elected, for organization of ideas are similar in both oral and written expression...
Thus, in the autumn of 1935, wrote Manhattan Banker James P. Warburg in Hell Bent for Election. Last week, in the most dramatic reversal of the campaign, this early, vehement and brilliant member of the "anybody but Roosevelt" school announced his intention to vote for Franklin Roosevelt's reelection...
...quit in bitter disillusionment after the President torpedoed the London Economic Conference, at which Banker Warburg was U. S. fiscal expert, and with it Warburg's hopes for currency stabilization and revived international trade. Last year Banker Warburg capped his outspoken criticism of his old chief with Hell Bent for Election, which eloquently denounced Franklin Roosevelt as a promise-breaker, an incipient dictator, an "ineffective and dangerous man to have in the White House" because he was dominated by his emotions and his prime emotional drive was "an inordinate desire for popularity." Republicans gobbled up 400,000 copies...
...more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post-War inflation his interest in waste rose. Starting with the common knowledge that wood can be softened and bent by steaming, Inventor Mason finally arrived at the explosion process for reducing wood to pulp. The process...
...audience so bent on whooping things up that it cheered almost every sentence, whether applause was indicated or not, the Democratic Nominee cried: "A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. . . . Now, when the present management of your team took charge in 1933 the national Scoreboard looked pretty bad. . . . Our national income had declined over 50% . . . from $81,000,000,000 a year to $38,000,000,000 a year. . . . The money to run the Government comes from taxes; and the tax revenue in turn depends for its size on the size of the national income...