Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born on a farm in East Prussia, in a back room built on to a brewery, descended from Mennonite peasant stock, he was a delicate child whose bent for reading and things literary developed early. His mother, saving from her " milk money," managed to send him to school, where he proved neither a model boy nor a sissy, developed a passion for the theatre and had several timidly distant affairs of the heart, which never got beyond the dumbly adoring stage. When not yet 15, he, like Keats, became an apothecary's apprentice, but an injured knee forced...
...intended to increase a man's earning capacity. It does so merely as an incidental; and many men, mistaking the incidental for the final end, are now seeking an education for that sole purpose. It is they, as much as any, who are disturbing the University's program. Bent on securing practical knowledge, they miss most of what Harvard offers in true culture--the broadening and deepening of the student's background. The American spirit of utility has put Harvard under constant pressure to serve these men better; the hue and cry has been to make the college a more...
...lost her voice and was not heard of again. It appears that she lost her voice during the illness that followed the birth of her daughter, the present Mrs. Reiner. The mother did not tell her daughter of this, but with a strange anxiety turned the child's bent toward singing, determined to realize in her the graces of song of which the child had deprived her. One day, when the girl was half grown, an angry maid taunted her bitterly with having caused the ruin of her mother's voice. Still mother and daughter could not bring themselves...
...Coach Campbell. All the backfield candidates were made to run in a circle, jump every third step, roll on the ground, hop, first on one foot and then on the other, walk holding onto their ankles, turn forward and backward somersaults, and finally, run at a quick pace, bent double with arms folded...
...Fascisti are bent on the purification of Rome. Their campaign is directed against all obscene literature, postcards, pamphlets, pictures...