Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspector Joseph Marcs of the local police came to examine the body. The pistol was still clutched in Wenzel Kokoschka's hand. As the inspector bent to turn the corpse over, rigor mortis caused the corpse's fingers to contract. Corpse Wenzel shot Inspector Joseph through the stomach...
...that period, received the M.A., and Ph.D. degree from Oxford. In 1925 Dr. Fulton returned to Harvard to study for his M.D., which he received in 1927. The year following he spent at Dr. Harvey Cushing's famous clinic for brain surgery in connection with the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. He returned to England in 1928 as Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Of the numerous publications by Dr. Fulton, his most important work thus far is "Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement...
...sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. In prison the sore festers, he is convinced that his wife has rid herself of him in order to take up with Sheridan, his "best friend" (Matt Moore). Follows a prison break in which Hart escapes and returns to his home, vengeance-bent. As he enters he overhears his spouse retailing to Sheridan how she saved her husband from his enemies' submachine guns. Remorse stings him and with an amazing lack of logic for such a hard man he walks from his home into the trap he has laid for Sheridan...
...Whatever bent you follow, however, whatever subject you pursue, whatever ambition may inspire you, the only way yet devised to bring you success is through work--sheer, hard, consistent work. There is no short-cut. Thomas Edison said that success is made up of 2 percent of genius, and 98 percent of hard work. When asked if he didn't believe that genius was inspiration, he replied: "No, genius is perspiration...
...rising winds of Tariff v. Free Trade-now certain to be the issue of Britain's next election-three quivering political straws bent and whipped last week, prophetic, significant...