Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Medical Society will meet tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Amphitheatre. In addition to the usual demonstration of cases, Dr. John Donley of Providence, Rhode Island, will speak on "Wirsung to Riolan on the Pancreatic Duct", and Dr. H. B. Richardson '10 of New York City on "The Inadequacy of the Measured Diet as an Index of the Food Metabolized...
...University in 1895. He immediately began the practice of surgery, specializing in neurology. From 1902 to 1911 he was Associate Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins; since that date he has been Professor of Surgery at the University Medical School. He is also surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital...
...College Office, he is merely a bit of machinery in a complex system, like the time-clock of a business establishment. To the individual in the course, he represents the frailties of the human flesh, to be plied with the wine of excuse and entreaty until his will is bent to the individual's purpose. The storm of hard-luck stories and heart-appeals that daily besiege a monitor's ear would do credit to a Hollywood composition course. And it is the sternest of the monitorial clan that cannot be bent now and then before the storm...
...Oxford debaters come here at the end of an extended trip, during which they have continuously handled the same side of one question. Tonight their case will be perfected. A forceful, able affirmative of the question "Should America enter the League of Nations?" The Harvard team has bent every effort in these opening weeks of the college year to a preparation of the negative. The time has been short, but an exhibition worthy the support of the University is to be expected...
This very power of the press leads to the exploitation of anything out of the ordinary. A foreigner with a bent for witty remarks becomes a tradition. He is quoted everywhere and his remarks are interpreted as penetrating and profound. This cannot help turning most men's heads. Wu-Ting-Fang discovered that his slightest utterance, even when seriously intended, caused Americans to burst into laughter. Everything he said was considered droll, subtle, or Oriental. In consequence, he said a great deal, taking a hand in politics, and communicating directly with members of Congress. When the State Department hinted that...