Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days on the floor as a straight price-fixing measure of which even its sponsors were not proud. Most of the ingenious economic principles devised by college professors and accepted by Democratic Big Business as a means of breaking the Depression at the farm were scrapped by headstrong politicians bent on giving their Congressional districts what they wanted...
...taken to jail, Assassin Trojanoff, gravely wounded, went to Alexander Hospital. There last week his troubles seemed to be over. Two policemen guarded the end of the ward. Competent Sister Catherine Konstantinoff moved quietly among the beds. Late at night she paid a last visit to the ward. She bent over Christo Trojanoff, smoothed his pillow, patted his head, then pulled a pistol from under her apron and blew his brains...
...plant and placed on his "Belgian Road." a machine which shakes and sways and jolts a car until finally some spring breaks or some nut wiggles loose. And if Packard's famed Major Jesse Gurney Vincent is curious about somebody else's chassis he may order one bent and twisted until he knows its points as well as if he had designed it. Just as inquisitive, just as skeptical, are the Industry's other engineers, including such men as Studebaker's Delmar ("Barney") Roos, Hupmobile's Frank E. Watts, Reo's Horace T. Thomas...
Fearless son of a rich Brazil coffee-planter and engineer, he inherited and indulged a mechanical bent. At 10 he drove a Baldwin locomotive in his father's private railway. That year he saw a balloon ascension at a Sao Paulo fair. Sent to Paris at 18 to finish his education, he had his first balloon ascent at 24 with Machuron, designer of Explorer Salomon Auguste Andree's famed balloon. Straightway he began fiddling with lighter-than-air craft, built ten airships of which No 6 won the 100,000-franc Deutsche prize for the first flight around...
Hessian Hills parents meet fortnightly for discussion, monthly for work about the school. At their last meeting they questioned Dr. George Sylvester Count's of Teachers College about his proposal that school teachers "indoctrinate" their pupils with liberalism. Of the same intellectual bent if not in the same wage group, the Hessian Hills parents contribute more to their children's teaching than most parents...