Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still swings the murderer, bent of knees In a slightly strained repose, Nor feels the faint hand of the breeze: He now with Solomon all things knows: That, lastly, breath is to a man But to want and fret a span...
...course is presented very ably by Professor Bent in a clear, concise manner. It is well organized, and for anyone who keeps up to date in his work, should not be very difficult. Special stress is laid on thought and reasoning power rather than memory, which makes the course much more valuable training than it would otherwise be. It is not a dull course in theory, but has, rather, a great many practical applications
...restoring social equilibrium, the loss of which accounts for most bank failures. When the farm problem becomes a major catastrophe, business either ignores the plight of one-third of our nation, or actively opposes efforts to regain balance. It makes little effort to design better plans. Political leaders bent on making good laws receive specialized advice related to individual problems of the adviser...
...even a slight inspection to the affair that in the trials at Scottaboro and Docatur the jurors were subject to an overwhelming prejudicial influence, which rendered their decisions far from impartial. At times the prisoners had to be protected by the National Guard from the mobs of Southern gentlemen bent on indulging themselves in a lynching or burning party. When it was bruited about Dixle that Negroes were on the stand for the rape of white women, and were being defended by a Jewish lawyer who belonged to the International Labor Defense, a Communist-affiliated organization, it was plain enough...
...sundown one day last week the U. S. S. Akron cast off from her stub mast at the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, N. J., floated silently and moodily into a cheerless sky. One after another the eight engines were started. Then Commander Frank C. McCord bent a course eastward to sea; the 70 officers and crew settled down to one more of the Akron's routine training flights. This one was to be most casual-a two-day cruise off the New England coast for calibration of the ship's radio compass; a trifling job compared...