Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer than any other member, could recall a ruling similar to one the I. C. C. made last week. The ruling affected not a mighty railroad system but the 23-mi. Fredericksburg & Northern in Texas, the 65-lb. rails of which have been worn and bent by passing trains since 1889. Yet it was important as a precedent...
...blue door arched with brick; a pink brick house with a shop on the ground floor, an apartment above. Each house is about two feet square, wired for electricity with a tiny fixture in the ceiling of each room. Encouraged by the success of these, Delano & Aldrich talents were bent last week on two new models: a larger business block with a restaurant and grocery on the ground floor, and an even larger Georgian mansion. Chief Draughtsman W. Bowman enthused: "It has a lovely staircase." These will sell at slightly higher prices...
Perhaps Mother Advocate has bent too long over the great alembic in which a new President is being distilled. Drunk with the fumes of politics, she has taken strange men into her house, who are not of her country (two contributors are not undergraduates). They have enslaved her own children, and torn her from the shrine of Polyhymnia, and made her bow down and worship before the heathen image of the Happy Warrior...
...which the Glee Club represents the desires of the singers included in the University membership. And indeed it is ridiculous to assert that the Glee Club is not linked with the clubs of other years, simply because the trend and the energies of the men involved have been bent in regions of highest musical thought, resulting in achievements that have set the standards for college singers everywhere...
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was born into a carefully wealthy, sternly cultured family of Oslo, who insisted on his being a good student. With a scientific and mathematical bent. Fridtjof chose zoology as his specialty. That and his love of adventure led him into the Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure...