Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down upon the cactus-littered desert at Roswell, N. Mex., where Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard tinkers with stratosphere rockets, slid the red-striped monoplane of Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. From the plane stepped Colonel Lindbergh and Copper Tycoon Harry Frank Guggenheim, bent on finding out whether the Goddard rockets are worth spending more money on. For three days Visitors Guggenheim & Lindbergh peered at a 60-ft. rocket tower and instruments usually covered by canvas to foil snoopers. Bald, secretive Professor Goddard showed them a new rocket he has sent on short nights at 700 m.p.h., a new gyroscope designed...
...Tutorial System on the whole has proved its worth. But men cannot be too soon aided in determining their favorite bent or too soon initiated into the work of thinking as individuals...
League Trap? Squire Baldwin's diplomats at the Foreign Office and on Britain's delegation at Geneva repeated daily last week that His Majesty's Government were not acting "against" Italy but "for" the League covenant. They firmly deprecated all suggestions that Britain was bent on curbing Italy to protect her own imperial interests in Africa. "No selfish or imperialist motives enter into our minds," they all said, recalling the similar declaration at Geneva of new British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare (TIME. Sept...
...went on to say, quoting a seventeenth century writer, that a liberal education, which the Graduate School attempts to foster, is one in which every man is enabled to follow his own natural bent in the way of research...
Since all courses in English have been renumbered, students must check carefully the announcements in the Course Pamphlet. BIOLOGY 40* Consult Professor Upton CHEMISTRY 23* Consult Professor Kistiakowsky 25* Consult Dr. Coolige Mallinckrodt 206 27* Consult Professor Bent CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY 20* Mon. at 4-5.30 Widener D COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY 7hf* Tues., Oct. 1, at 3 Widener B ECONOMICS C hf* Consult Prof. O. H. Taylor 19* Mon. at 4-6 Dunster House 33* Consult Professor Black 60* Consult Professor Burbank ENGLISH B Consult Mr. McMullen C Consult Mr. McMullen D* Consult Asst. Professor Whiting E Consult Professor Packard FINE ARTS...