Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman football scrimmage yesterday Richard Warren, playing at quarterback, received a severe injury to his leg, which the doctors pronounced to be a compound fracture. Warren was immediately taken to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston...
...Drinker will speak at a meeting of the Harvard Medical Society in the Peter Bent Brigham amphitheater at 8.15 o'clock tonight...
Harvard's latest poet came to the University after graduating from New York University. Besides his bent for poetry, he is an excellent student, and attained Phi Beta Kappa honors...
...spars shiver, tumults surge, canvas flogs, human limpets cling to wreckage with bleeding nails, battered limbs, frozen hands, grim resolve. It is a fast-sailing tale of clipper days, stoutly and thoroughly rigged from stem to gudgeon, commanded by a cultured swashbuckler from Nova Scotia, a hammer-fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia, this skipper's redemption is made cinema-credible by a bleak, briny coast, driving rain, starvation and the steadfastness of a childhood sweetheart...
...bleak but fertile plains of Manitoba at dawn and dusk. Over them a short but beamy shag-pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie...