Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nobility. Smarting ever after, as an old man he let loose against the college a blast of irony that all but put it out of existence, having first advertised it as the place where he picked up his ideas on "social iniquity and inequality" and his anticlerical bent...
Four hundred uniformed young women tend the machines which sew and fill sacks of granulated sugar, fold and fill boxes of lump sugar in a factory at Lille, France. Flitting fingers, fixed eyes, bent heads heed every zip, snip, swish, zoop, bupp, bopp of the machines-60 seconds every minute, 60 minutes every hour, 40 hours every week...
...sides we see to plainly the reflections of the European struggle. We feel the emotional violence of conflicting groups, each exerting its own social pressure, each bent on conformity. Not since the days immediately after the war have the citizens of this country been subjected to such powerful forces. In fact there are many analogies between the emotional atmosphere of today and that which existed during the first years of the European struggle. I cannot help drawing a parallel between the American scene into which you graduate and that into which I was graduated in 1914. One difference there...
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Soon Sims's Brother Gordon turned up to talk it over. Out ran Grandma LeMaster & kin. Gordon Sims's father heard his son yell, got there to find him knifed and bleeding to death on the ground. As the elder Sims bent over his son's body he was stabbed. He seized a .22 rifle and blazed away, pointblank. Mrs. LeMaster's son-in-law fell wounded. Somehow the daughter was stabbed in the breast. When the officers came, they arrested Mrs. LeMaster for the murder of Gordon Sims...