Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British laboratory a white-haired savant bent, over a microscope, lifted a sad, tired face to the glare of a high-powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison. In came an uninvited guest, no conventional red-tighted devil, but Monsieur Mephistopheles, sleek, well-groomed, bemonocled, his only tail the double portion of conventional evening dress...
...archaeological problems. The road from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was difficult to travel. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where it touched the western culture left haphazard by Alexander's armies and the traders who followed. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally, constricted by the Himalayan Mountains and the Gobi desert, debouched into what is now Kansu province...
...bulk of men who have neither the bent toward public life, nor the ability to insure early retirement. I wish the pleasures which come from the contact greater field than their own community There is work there for all college men, present lack of curiosity in those subjects seems to be giving away to a general interest in all that has to do with their world, of which this is one very great phase...
...College men who have the bent and can afford it should go into politics. They should look facts in the face when they do. It is hard work and at times very disappointing work. It is, however, the most interesting work there is. Above all, there is the satisfying knowledge that win or lose, you are trying to do something for the country...
...ring in Atlanta, Joseph Stecher, world's heavyweight champion, pursued an old man. Every now and again he would leap in air, waving his legs -legs so prehensile that whenever Stecher wraps them around a wrestler's stomach, the wrestler falls down in agony. The old man, bent nearly double, seemed tired; he staggered when he dodged the python legs. His head hung forward on his neck, but that neck was nearly as big as the head itself, for the old man was Stanislaus Zbyszko, aging Polish wrestler, But what was this ? The crowd rose, shrieking; the referee...