Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic tools of learning are books. Better than two million volumes were destroyed by Germans and Japanese bent on eradicating the ideas of freedom. Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia lost more than half their libraries; Russia lost 55 million books in the Ukraine alone; the Japanese destroyed nearly every book they found in China and the Philippines. In occupied countries, scholars were isolated for years from the books and periodicals which serve as vital mediums for the exchange of ideas and information...
...while we're at it," she added, "we might just as well re-open the entries, just to see if Harvard has had any new ideas since Monday." So anyone with a name for a new magazine with literary bent can still get a crack at the prize--a free subscription to be presented by the first Annex subscriber and two tickets to a Boston show--just by dropping a card to Miss Tinker at 55 Garden Street...
Tooth & Nail. In Mineola, L.I., Walter Szymkow, booked as an auto theft suspect, pulled a four-inch nail out of the station floor, bent it between his teeth, broke a brick in two, pulverized it with his fist, excused his actions by explaining that he was embarrassed, never having been arrested before...
...first attempt was a lion hunt on a nearby island in the Mississippi. He knew that there were lions on the island, because he had bought two from a circus and turned them loose there. A fearless Star-Times reporter, bent on spoiling the Post-Dispatch's exclusive story, went on a private safari which bagged the lions while Wright and his party were eating lunch. Three months later, Wright tried again. This time he bought a couple of "old, vicious" lions. They were so moth-eaten they refused to leave the camp site when let out of their...
...team's scrimmage against the Jayvees was a hell-bent-for-leather affair which featured good ball-handling, in view of the sloppy weather, on the part of all the "C" team backs. Players who scrimmaged against the Junior Varsity were as follows...