Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will come as a great surprise to his enthusiastic admirers. Long have they been used to seeing him in dramas which rigidly observed, if indeed they did not extol, the principles of virtuous conduct. Now he appears as a chin-whiskered but frisky California lawyer who arrives in Manhattan bent on giving his wife grounds 'for divorce (among other things, she demolished his excellent wine cellar). His method involves a hotel room and a hired trollop, with whom he retires in full view of the audience. The farcical exploits of a crew of blackmailers nearly cause things...
...rival faction of the United Mine Workers of America. Rarely before has U. S. Labor exhibited such a bitter intra-Union schism. In Indianapolis gathered a thousand "regular" delegates under big, hard-faced John Llewellyn Lewis, U. M. W. international president. At Springfield assembled 455 "rank-and-file" delegates bent on taking possession of U. M. W. and reorganizing...
...find. There is, of course, a great value that must be attached to our new knowledge. But there have been other finds during past years that have had a greater scientific value. Thus, it is not the 'greatest scientific find of the ages', as some enterprising reporter with a bent towards hyperbole so nicely dubbed it. The discovery of the composition of the sun was a find of just as great, if not greater importance...
...fear the reduction in tonnage which the American people want will not be achieved at London," C.J. Friedrich, assistant professor of Government, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Our delegation, I believe, is chiefly bent on prolonging negotiations, to save its face and to postpone financial trouble at home...
Seniors with an artistic bent are notified that competitions are now open for designs for Class Day tickets, and for words for the Eaccalaureate Hymn. Efforts must be submitted to 19 Straus Hall, before April 6, and the winners will receive free tickets to the Class Day exercises...