Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the hired servants, and went after him. And they went to Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered the synagogue and taught. . . . -Mark, I: 17-22. In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George W. Lamsa bent over a photostat of a large block of weathered stone covered with squiggly characters. He immediately recognized these as Aramaic, quickly and easily translated them into English...
Many have drifted into the Department as a line of least resistance, having no particular bent in other directions. This is perfectly natural, as they have spoken and written English all their lives and certainly their native tongue should be learned well. Furthermore it appears to be a good Field from the point of view of correlating other material, since almost any course is possible except a science...
Meanwhile at the Museum Director Barr gulped coffee and puffed cigarets, as he tried to explain why two wooden balls dangling on wires from a bit of bent pipe should be considered art. Three days before the exhibition opened printers were waiting anxiously for the catalog of which Director Barr had composed only six pages. Excerpt...
...drop in the stock market when the NRA and AAA were passed and the subsequent rise when they were declared void by the court. He went on to call the administration the most remarkable political matchine of all time and summed up their political and economic philosophy as "Hell bent for election...
Same year New York's President of Police Commissioners Theodore Roosevelt took a leaf from current melodrama, declared: "There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American . . . bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses-whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter...