Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacant house near Haverford, Pa., Frank A. McClatchy, rich real estate broker, took two men who said they wanted to buy a home. The minute they stepped inside the "customers" seized Broker McClatchy, bent his arms behind his back, shouted: "You're kidnapped!" McClatchy flung them off, punched one in the jaw, the other in the stomach. "Give him the works!" cried one of the snatchers, and a pistol bullet pierced McClatchy's chest, buried itself in his belly. The kidnappers fled. McClatchy died four days later in a Philadelphia hospital...
...Bent, assistant professor of Chemistry, will deliver the second in a series of five lectures on the progress of the sciences in the last hundred years. The talk which will be illustrated with experiments will be given in Mallinckrodt B-1, Thursday afternoon, July 20, at 4 o'clock...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will deliver the first talk on Astronomy with demonstrations and slides on July 13 at 4 o'clock. At the same time the following week, H. E. Bent, assistant professor of Chemistry, will outline parallel development in his fields. Each lecture will be accompanied either with experiments and demonstrations or lantern slides. On July 27, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, is scheduled to give a similar talk. F. H. Crawford, Assistant professor, will give the lecture on Physics on August 3, and Professor Roderick MacDonald will conclude the series on August...
...duels and was as tense during the performance as any of the contestants. Each duel consisted of four sets; a set was made up of four ''strikes'' or blows. One of the important tasks of the officials was to straighten out the rapiers, at times bent almost double by the terrific blows. The motif of the whole performance is absolute seriousness...
...cash (as always) and though his papers' prestige is low now that the country has outgrown them in both directions, above and below, it is doubtful that so subtle a mind as Hearst's is trapped in tragedy. He knows he has lived a great life and bent the course of millions of other lives. By the dark mental spiral that is called "inconsistency" he can accommodate himself and his past to whatever is new. That is what he has always been, a newsman...