Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were 87 more questions to answer, and 90 minutes to do them all in. At the same hour one March morning, 5,580 nervous seniors in high schools all over the U.S. bent heads and pencils to the questions. There were $300 college scholarships for the ten winners...
Although Pierian's interest in the feminine sex is nothing new, it has not always been so aesthetic. In the earlier years of its existence, the Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions of romance-bent musicians would start from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, and comb the land from Brattle Street and Brookline to Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill...
...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, left his teaching post on Monday, as a result of a sudden heart attack, which forced him to retire to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and which will probably incapacitate him for the remainder of the spring term...
...Report Uncensored (TIME, Aug. 11); to KXAR, of Hope, Ark., for outstanding public service during a flattening tornado; to Washington's WQQW (TIME, Jan. 20), for The Children's Hour, the best children's program, and to Minneapolis' WCCO, for As the Twig Is Bent, a youth rehabilitation series. The U.N. "Network for Peace" wins a special commendation for its United Nations Today...