Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julius B. Bixler, Bussey Professor of Theology, Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, have indicated their cooperation with organizations bent on formulating a seven-point program to correct serious social ills...
...past decade, tyrants have bent scientific effort to military and political ends. And many a man of good will has wailed that science should take a holiday because it has created the modern instruments of war, and technologic advance has caused so much sociological dislocation. Most scientists, if they have been left to their benches and desks, have been too busy to heed or hear. But last week when the American Associatioi for the Advancement of Science met at Indianapolis, it was perfectly plain that its leaders had begun to think about science & society. Their defenses and explanations of science...
...Rose Bowl game, No. 1 game of the day, 90,000 people besieged Pasadena to see the University of California play the University of Alabama. California was bent on spoiling Alabama's record of never having been defeated in the Rose Bowl. In the first quarter Alabama outplayed California. But in the second quarter the pounding of the heavier California line began to tell on Alabama, and California's Vic Bottari hustled around right end for a touchdown from the 3-yd. line. He duplicated the play in the next quarter, and that ended the scoring. California...
...found Communist sympathizers all over the place, a Red Army commander, with a price on his head, on the staff of Chiang Kai-shek's commander. After he had gone through the Red lines he was followed (although he did not know it) by roving White "bandits" bent on robbery. The Reds received reports that a crazy "foreign devil'' was leading an attack on them by marching a mile ahead of his troops. First Soviet citizens to whom Snow spoke-a farmer and a local official-said cheerfully, "Hai p'a," which Snow thought meant...
...Widener Library steps. Cars were splashing away in the streets, but inside the Yard traffic consisted only of a few preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than the first step. Gradually, bit by bit he succeeded in molding the uncooperative snow into a large ball. Suddenly straightening up, he hurled it with all his force at one of the windows of the Reading...