Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was hard on the traveler. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where there is to be found a trace of the western culture left by Alexander and the traders who followed him. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally came out into the Kansu province...
...Eliot] who transformed a little New England college into one of the foremost universities of the world stood alone. And so it is with Briggs, the man he chose for dean; Briggs, also, stands alone. "Who that saw the Commencement of 1900 can forget the slender, slightly bent figure that stood almost shrinking while Eliot spoke, the bowed head, the downcast eyes-and the cheers that shook the theatre? " Le Baron Russell Briggs.' A wondrous voice rang out the words. Le Baron Russell Briggs. The well-beloved dean of Harvard College, patient, tender, discerning, candid, just and cheering because...
...Harvard Medical Society will meet in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Amphitheatre (Van Dyke Street entrance), on Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock. There will be demonstrations of cases and a lecture on "The Pathology of Deficiency Diseases" by Drs. S. B. Wolbach and Percy Howe. The meeting is open to medical students and physicians...
...Michigan and it was from there that his old friend Calvin Coolidge called him one day last June to deliver a nominating speech on his behalf at the Cleveland Convention of the Republican Party. It was Dr. Burton's only excursion into politics, although he had a definite bent in that direction. That speech brought Dr. Burton no mean amount of fame at the time...
...Cheron, France, a gravedigger dug all morning, finished a hole for a coffin, threw up a spadeful of earth which struck a neighboring tombstone. As he bent again to his spade, this loosened stone fell, brought down a pile of earth over him, crushed him beneath it, smothered him to death...