Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually described by Communists, the Capitalist bosses incite crack workers to exceed normal production, get the whole shop working faster to keep up, exhaust and exploit their workers. Throughout Russia proletarians sensed that the disguised State Capitalism of Dictator Stalin, which has already forced piecework upon Russians, is now bent upon the speed-up disguised as "Stakhanovism...
...works of early travelers sufficiently to realize what this meant, decided to go in anyway. With a party of eight white men, completely unarmed, he left the Benin River on Jan. 4, 1897 and started overland for Benin City. A volley of shots rang out when a Mr. Locke bent over to tie his shoelaces. All but two men in the party were brutally slaughtered. By Feb. 17, a punitive expedition, complete with an admiral. 500 troops, five Maxim guns and a 7-year-old native boy who kept saying "God bless the Queen and I hope you will knock...
Bethlehem Steel, SEC's announcement of Bethlehem Steel's salaries was dulled by the fact that Charles Schwab's $250,000 and Eugene Grace's $180,000 were already matters of record. New was the information that Quincy Bent (in charge of steel making, raw material) made $90,000, as did C. Austin Buck (in charge of mines...
Even with gasoline at a new war price of $1.20 per gal. many Italians continued to drive their cars, but the Fascist Press clarioned "Use your car only for business! On pleasure bent take a train or a bus." Excited schoolchildren, marshaled by their teachers, shrilled "We want no heat in our schoolrooms all winter!" Outside school hours Fascist moppets of both sexes scampered about collecting scrap metal for II Duce. He contributed quantities of bronze busts of himself for melting into bullets. A Royal Duke chipped in three pounds of gold. While priests collected wedding rings for the State...
...dealing with our ancestors. But the biographer who is persistently jocose is more likely to cheapen himself than entertain his readers. "Count Rumford of Massachusetts" is the life of a brilliant and eccentric cosmopolitan figure in eighteenth century politics, science, and society. Yet Mr. Thompson seems far more bent in his book on playfully pointing out the quaint ways of our forebears in that remote age than on giving us a true picture of his subject. Perhaps no one else who has ever really read a book printed before 1800 has been amused by the old typographical character...