Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throughout the land women's colleges are having their most important social functions. In the face of this temptation, it cannot be overemphasized that man has a duty to his gender in these tempestuous days. Let him not forget who pays for the corsages when the feminine knee is bent and the roughed lips are popping the question. Let him not forget who pays for the theatre tickets when two langorous eyes are pleading. It is the duty of every Harvard man, and every man throughout the country, to maintain his own integrity this year, to be firm...
...notes warn the actor that he will never live through the preview, and true to form, he doesn't. Two more murders are committed before Denny, a movie publicity man, discovers the criminal. We warn you not to be too gullible in accepting obvious clues, because Paramount, Inc., is bent on deceiving...
...holy water was sprinkled. A prayer to Mary the Immaculate Conception "caused a bloating of the woman's body." The woman appeared "emaciated at times, her face fiery red at others, her lips swollen to the size of hands, her abdomen so hard at one time that it bent the iron bedstead to the floor. Wise old Father Theophilus, who said he knew the energumen would recover, had to dissuade the others from having last rites given...
...efforts of the Senate Munitions Investigation Committee to excite the nation about J. P. Morgan & Co.'s part in drawing it into the War (TIME, Jan. 20) had come to such a pass that Chairman Nye felt obliged to apologize to newsmen for the dullness of his show. Bent on convincing the public that Allied trade and not German submarines had made the U. S. take up arms in 1917, the Committee abruptly switched from Business to Government history. Banker Morgan and his partners were left lolling on the sidelines while a parade of distinguished ghosts marched...
Early experimentation in snow-planing for commercial purposes brought out many difficulties. For the first few trials there was an almost perfect record of minor accidents, entailing broken skis, bent propellers, and damage to the wings. A few planes actually turned over in trying to take...