Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education forms 'the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined...
...Philadelphia via the Delaware River, foggy Montauk Point, L. I., and the Cape Cod Canal, to Boston, where Mayor Curley gave a luncheon for the fliers. MacMillan also attended this ceremonial meal, then returned to Southport, Me., where he had just taken his schooner Bozvdoin to have her sails bent on. His own ship, the Peary, waited at Wiscasset, Me., where the dismantled planes were to be loaded aboard and the start made on Bunker Hill Day (June 17). Governor Brewster of Maine planned the event as a state function with speeches, brass bands and official godspeed...
Back in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, we were taught that it is not good newspaper style to make a title of an occupation. Yet in TIME, May 18, Page 16, column 3, I read: "Teacher Scopes," "Evolutionist Scopes." Were Professor Silas Bent, now on the staff of The New York Times Sunday magazine section, and Professor Charles G. Ross, now chief Washington correspondent for The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, wrong when they gave us fledgling journalists such advice...
LYNDON PHIFER Brevity, accuracy, significance moved TIME to the adoption of such titles as Teacher, Evolutionist, Philosopher, Publisher, Ditchdigger, Bootlegger, Undertaker, Politician, etc., before last names. The teaching of Messrs. Bent and Ross is standard in the newspaper world. TIME, to be concise and to the point, breaks this and other canons of journalism.-ED. Fears Ridicule...
...Percival Bailey, S.B., Ph.D., M.D., Instructor in Surgery at the University Medical School and a physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital has been awarded one of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships for the year 1925-26 it was announced by the trustees of the foundation last night...