Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago the titular head of the Republican Party, Herbert Hoover, not daring to risk defeat in his home state, but bent on having at least a strong voice in the convention, rallied a few potent cronies of the State's Republican machine and entered a delegation of convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam...
...This is mad persecution advanced to the most pitiable stages of New Deal-irium," roared Royalist Jones. "While I, of course, realize that few business concerns could withstand such continued and powerful efforts at sabotage, nevertheless I warn against the dangers of vicious governmental malevolence bent on riding roughshod over individual rights and Constitutional guarantees hitherto respected by our Government...
...numbers and this week, there is to be a Schubert-Tchaikovsky-Wagner program with Elizabeth Travis as soloist in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Surely, this is an occasion which romantically-minded souls should not miss. Monday evenings is gypsy night -- for the benefit, oddly enough, of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The members of this worthy institution must have a craving for this type of music for every number on the program has a authentic gypsy flavor. Possibly, the management will make the evening complete by placing dark-skinned fortune-tellers in the lobby...
Those nine historically pregnant volumes went with Dr. Gushing to Yale when in 1932 he became too old for Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. From his diaries he carefully culled enough memories to make a popular volume which he called From a Surgeon's Journal and published last week.- However useful historians may eventually find Dr. Cushing's complete diaries, they will find From a Surgeon's Journal poor history, for it reveals too little about that medically significant author's own activities. One unconnected series of jottings, however, is interesting to historian, layman...
...part in the festivities. The seed which the Puritans planted in 1636 has grown and blossomed, so that not just at Cambridge but all over the country is a group of universities that forms one of the strongest bulwarks of free government. Despite the temporary encroachment of petty politicians, bent on perverting the true function of education for purposes of propaganda and personal aggrandisement, democratic government is unlikely to land on the rocks for good as long as the spirit of learning prevails. It is definitely encouraging, then, that Congress has officially recognized the importance of higher education...