Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshman candidates for the yearling soccer team are being coached for their first game Wednesday with Tufts by Noobar R. Danielian '28, with the assistance of Robert R. Pool, Harvard H. Broad bent '32, captain of the 1931 soccer team, is in charge of the Jayrees...
This sort of thing is unfair to the unsuspecting reader and viciously unfair to the author, who, I suspect, would prefer that his works were never read if they must first be emended by some virtuous Headmaster Bluenose bent on removing all traces of those ugly old Facts of Life. Is this a university or a boarding-school for neurotic girls? You men--especially you new men--who object to being treated like children will boycott courses where this disgusting practice obtains until it is removed. Sedgwick Mead...
...Lynn, Mass, spent an unhappy week, their second unhappy week since the cool September nights began. Upon them, even when it was not raining, had descended tons and tons of water. Then came gases, liquid chemicals. Now came fire. The dump was surrounded and assaulted by blueshirted firemen, bent not on putting the fire out but on spreading it. Soon the dump became a truly impossible place to live in and a great many prudent roaches and rats began moving out, to take up safer quarters in the town. The human residents of Lynn found this exasperating as well...
...strictest secrecy, by candlelight behind locked doors in an austere chamber in Columbus Hospital, one witness at a time appeared before the court. Black-robed nuns swished through the hospital corridors, attending to the needs of judges, advocates and witnesses. Across the hall nuns vowed to secrecy bent over desks, laboriously making four copies in longhand of all testimony, to be sent to Rome. Every day Monsignor Cioppa distributed hard candies in little silk bags stitched by the nuns, explaining that this was an old Italian custom signifying Joy and Peace. Two miracles are necessary for beatification. In Chicago last...
...Physics, talked on a century of Progress in Physic over WBZ. Next Saturday evening, August 12, Harlow Shapley will give a condensed version of the talk which he will deliver at the Observatory Thursday evening. Professor Kirtley Mather will give the Geology lecture on August 19, H. E. Bent will discuss Chemistry during the last century on August 19, H. E. Bent will discuss Chemistry during the last century on August 26, and Professor MacDonald will speak on Biology on September...