Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sidewalk cafes, in dreary queues, on street corners and stubble-strewn fields throughout the world, men paused last week (as every week) to pass a word with their fellows and lighten their burdens with a wry joke. Here 85 there, as the talk shuttled, TIME'S correspondents bent an ear to listen...
...recent years her literary bent has been toward free-lance writing, which she supplements by a typing establishment in the Square. Since 1941 she has done secretarial work for such writers as Edmund Wilson, Esther Forbes, Bernard DeVoto and Donald Ogden Steward, and typed the original of A. J. Cronin's "Shannons...
...position is more understandable when we remember that Mr. Conant is a supporter of the Draft recently enacted. It is a small step from supporting a measure which places a relatively few (for the time being) young men in the clutches of war bent military forces to the advocacy of a program that would give the military control ever 10 very formative years in the lives of every one of our young...
Freshmen residing in the Yard are not as optimistic as the police, and vigilante committees have been formed in most halls to repel the Indians. The men in Weld and Matthews Halls will devote most of their attention to holding Dartmouths bent on dousing the statue of John Harvard with green paint...
...Harold Bauer heard almost all the great pianists of the day. He saw the ailing Abbé Liszt at one of his last public appearances; he heard Paderewski's London debut. He remembers shaggy Anton Rubinstein, the elegant Hans von Bülow, and the widow Clara Schumann bent so low over the keys that her nose almost touched her hands...