Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over hill & dale in the vicinity of Friedrichshafen one day soon will sail the big business-like Graf Zeppelin, this time bent on play. Zig-zagging here & there, ducking behind clouds, she will lay a trail of colored marks for a game of hare-&-hounds. The hounds will be motorists...
...aided in the matter of supplying food, shelter, and transportation for men who would be dependent on the generosity of the District of Columbia for their living, is an unwise adoption of the easiest way out. There is great potential danger in large gatherings of men who are bent on selfish goals, schooled in the ways of violence, and very dissatisfied with existent conditions. They are the food of revolution, as Mussolini discovered. The only good result of the affair is that it gives the lie direct to Armistice Day orations which praise indiscriminately the "noble, patriotic self-sacrifice...
...Houses, and, since the House Plan is still in an experimental stage, to jeopardize its success would be unwise. The main objection concerns student waiting in itself. In the Harvard of the past there was a too well marked division between wealthy and needy. Today every effort is bent towards placing all members of the University on as nearly equal a footing as possible, and student waiting militates against the development of a healthy social atmosphere. Extension of it, as a long-run policy, is not wise...
Like a balky horse which breaks into a run when headed toward the stable, the laggard giant DO-X flew briskly homeward to Europe last week. With a working crew of 13 and Fraulein Antoine Strassman, German aviatrix, as "assistant purser" (because no passengers were allowed), the flying boat bent a safe zig-zag course from New York via Newfoundland and the Azores, the first jump of 1,100 mi. being the longest. Favored by wind and sky, her twelve rebuilt Curtiss engines roaring in perfect chorus, the DO-X touched Southampton on the fifth day, pointed for Lake Constance...
...their results are capably mirrored in the adolescent omissions of the Republican Club platform drawn up last evening. The principle of thorough study of the year's most important problem is a long step in the right direction and should certainly be welcome in a society of men supposedly bent on securing a sound education and understanding of the world. If the Harvard Inquiry receives the support which its preliminary outline appears to deserve, and if it can maintain its program at the high standard which its founders desire, it should become a valuable organization for alert undergraduates...