Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taxes. Second important measure that the Administration is. bent on having is the bill to plug income tax law leaks. A good talking point for next autumn's campaign, it will add $258,000,000 to the government's revenue. Already through the House, the tax bill now reposes in the Senate Finance Committee...
While Alf Harrodon sat dazed the news shot through the poverty-stricken little colony of 250 at Bolinas. All that night the beach was bright with torches and bonfires, moving with bent shadows. Miles Pepper, 12, was the first in his family of eleven to hear what had happened. Father Pepper had just been dropped from CWA. A bank had just foreclosed on the home, beach tearoom and land which Mother Pepper had inherited from her father. While the other ten Peppers sat gloomily thinking of their misfortunes, Son Donald slipped quietly out of the house. Few minutes later...
...gull crouched fast in a huge white trap set by God. Through field glasses a Coast Guard lookout watched one try to take off from an ice floe. Vainly it beat the air with its long wings; one webbed foot was frozen fast. Soon the gull gave up, bent its sharp, hooked beak, sawed off the trapped leg and flew away. Other Coast Guardsmen last week found many a thin pinkish gull leg stuck upright...
Born in Beverly, Mass. of an old New England family which had prospered in the East India trade, he went to Groton, where he was a Big Man, and to Harvard where he got his degree in three years. His muscular 6-ft.-2-in. frame bent an oar in the varsity crew and he became a member of the exclusive Porcellain Club. After graduation he went to work for the conservative old Boston banking house of Kidder, Peabody...
...Tutors and general examinations should be introduced into the Division of Chemistry," said Henry E. Bent, Assistant Professor of Chemistry yesterday. Professor Bent went on to say: "Since tutorial work should not interfere with research investigation by professors, the University should hire a staff of well-trained tutors...