Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like good scientists, they warn the reader of factors that may obfuscate the conclusions. With no less than nine such warnings, Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, head of Stanford University's psychology department since 1922 and starred for distinguished research in American Men of Science, and Psychologist Winifred Bent Johnson present in the current issue of Character and Personality* a meaty, heavily documented summary of "Personality Characteristics of Happily Married, Unhappily Married, and Divorced Persons...
When Chicago's Century of Progress opened two years ago, two enterprising Midwesterners of 19 sat up all night for the distinction of being the fair's first sightseers. Midwesterners, when they age and retire, make their way by thousands to Southern California. Hence last week bent, grey-headed Howard Jackson, a onetime publisher of Oshkosh, Wis., was the first man to hand his ticket to a sombreroed gatekeeper and pass through the turnstile at San Diego's California Pacific International Exposition...
Item 2-The cover of This Week showing a bird in the middle of presumably a mountain stream, with a fly rod well-bent and reeling in his fish. Ask any fly fisherman if he ever tried to reel in a fish...
...Senate suddenly responded to President Roosevelt's call for action, dismayed him by taking the bit in its mouth, speeding hell bent on its own course. Ignoring Administration "must" bills...
...readers, and not many critics, last year waded through a huge post-War German novel called The Sleep-Walkers. In Germany where it was widely read, its author, Hermann Broch, was known respectfully as a onetime businessman whose philosophic and scientific bent had led him to literature in middle age. Readers of The Unknown Quantity will echo that respect. The Unknown Quantity is brief (240 pages), carefully and clearly written, contrives a genuine atmosphere of intellectual excitement, but it lacks the human charm most readers demand...