Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota's fishing resorts were jammed. A rowboat couldn't be had without ah advance reservation; most of them were signed up for the rest of the season. Izaak Waltons from towns like Bemidji, Sleepy Eye and Sauk Center got out their flies and corks, all hell bent to catch one of the 1 ,000 prize fish planted by Minneapolis Radio Station KSTP...
...dancing. As romantic lead comedian, Van also makes love and makes like a wild duck. Esther Williams shows off her dramatic talents in elaborate gowns and her more notable gifts in a plain bathing suit. Competing for laughs, Keenan Wynn and Lucille Ball work so hard they seem bent on destroying themselves...
Duck Talk. The word was passed, "Thirty minutes to go." Around the world ordinary men & women, who would be the casualties in an atomic war, bent their heads and cupped their ears to radio sets to catch this preview...
Sound & Straight. The point that impressed me at the wedding was the tremendous virtue and integrity personified by Queen Mary. She walks slowly with the slightly bent posture of an old lady (she is 79), and yet she seems to be as sound as a rock and full of quiet dignity. Like any charming oldster, Queen Mary has developed some pleasing eccentricities. For instance, she always rides in the forward jump-seat of her Daimler, coupling an old-fashioned inclination to see where she is going with an equally old-fashioned desire to sit up straight. And her unswerving devotion...
Here was a chance for a final, convincing test. According to Einstein, light carried energy. Therefore it had mass. Therefore rays of light from a star should be bent by a definite amount when they passed through the strong gravitational field near the sun. A convenient solar eclipse provided the opportunity to test the theory. Star images near the rim of the blacked-out sun were displaced by almost exactly the amount which Einstein predicted, proving that their rays had been bent...