Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Congress hell-bent to carve up the national budget, Federal Arts projects have come in for more than their share of epithets. "Useless," "extravagant," and myriads of other Republican, battle cries are heard. 210 Harvard Faculty members have risen in protest against this attack, vehemently defending Federal Arts on the ground that "a democratic government can assure its citizens a freedom of life, of enterprise, and of access to the arts of civilization such as no other government can or will assure them." They protest against the stifling of this "freedom of access" by distorted Congressional "economy...
Since the days when President Eliot revolutionized the academic world with the elective system, Harvard has taken pride in allowing her sons to follow their own bent down the paths of learning. As a result the uniformity which a thorough grounding in the classics gave the Harvard graduate of thirty years ago has disappeared. Now Harvard turns out physicists, chemists, and social scientists, whose only common bond is the proven ability to swim 50 yards...
...Among Dr. Cushing's well-known students and protègés: Dr. Walter Edward Dandy of Johns Hopkins; Dr. Gilbert Horrax of Boston; Dr. Leo Max Davidoff of Brooklyn; Dr. Eliott Carr Cutler, of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston; Dr. William John German of New Haven; Dr. Howard Christian Naffziger of the University of California...
...19th Century good painters generally quit regarding the female body as necessarily a subject for boudoir decoration, went hell-bent in two directions: moony romanticism and substantial realism. Several minor pictures illustrated the first; Gustave Courbet's Midday Dream (see cut) exemplified both. Courbet was a law student whose paintings of such big, authentically voluptuous women struck Parisians of the 1850s as "vulgar...
...inordinate percentage of the country's pitching greats have grievous afflictions in their flippers. Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean, Bob Feller, Lefty Grove, Schoolboy Rowe, Van Lingle Mungo, and Wes Ferrel, these are only a few of the burdened. X-rays have been taken, yes, and chipped bones and bent bones and extraneous bones have been removed. But many of these men have little faith in science. Some back astrology, some herbs, and others pronounce definite cures by wrapping rabbits around their arms by the light of the three-quarters moon...