Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the prime function of a university is to create an atmosphere favorable to the student bent on securing an education, instruction in its objective sense is a vital factor. It is possible that this factor is at present ignored because of the obstacles which prevent any definite estimation of an instructor's work in the class room. A method of avoiding this difficulty, and recommendations leading to improvement of the quality of instruction, should be among the principal concerns of the investigators. But, whatever the conclusions of the survey may be, the mere fact that the subject inspires examination...
Four instructors have been appointed to assistant professorships, the appointments to take effect in September. Henry Edward Bent becomes assistant professor of Chemistry. He received his A.B. at Oberlin College in 1922, S.M. Northwestern University, 1924, Ph.D. University of California, 1926. He has been instructor in Chemistry at Harvard for six years...
First men to see the "wild man" were Ernest Blanchard and Leslie Turner, two trappers, when he burst from the woods and started shooting at them. Whether the towering, dusky creature was an insane nature-lover bent on saving the lives of animals, like mad Albert Johnson who was killed in the wilds of Canada last month (TIME, Feb. 29), Woodsmen Blanchard and Turner did not stop to inquire. They fled through the woods and reported to the State police at Long Lake. A lieutenant with four of his men and two forest wardens, accompanied by the trappers...
...fascinated by it, presumably because it contradicts the prime advantage of their medium-ubiquity. Hotel Continental varies the unity-of-place idea by nearly personifying it. This time the hotel is an old one about to be torn down and the denizens who scamper through its antique corridors are bent on the forlorn gaiety of a farewell party. Mingling with the other guests is a cosmopolitan thief (Theodore Von Eltz) who hopes to retrieve some money which he cached in a fireplace long before. He experiences some trouble getting it because there is a party in the suite where...
...white pearl move slowly up the wide stone steps. Black velvet and grey feathers sweep to the sidewalk and a car door slams. young men with their fathers' money and fathers with fathers' money smile stiffly to one another. Cameras snap and the papers have a picture of a bent leg and averted gaze underneath a resounding name...