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Word: bents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary A. Healey, for 19 years supervisor of the Lowell House Dining Hall, died Saturday night in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Mrs. Healey, who became supervisor when the House was built, suffered from shock last April. She had been home once but had to return to the hospital and had been there three weeks prior to her death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mrs. Healey Succumbs | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...Eckley is back at the helm of another fine Amherst team, bent on spoiling today's Old Home Week festivities. The Jeffs play mostly schools of their own size (about a thousand students), which includes EIBL-leading Dartmouth. Amherst has beaten the Indians twice in the last two years. Its 1949 record...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Strong Jeff Nine Visits Old Coach Today | 5/25/1949 | See Source »

...rambling, inconsequential fashion, it tells the story of a reformed, horse-loving outlaw (Howard Duff) who meets up with the pretty daughter (Ann Blyth) of a rich, horse-racing rancher (George Brent). Howard is out to capture a wild horse. Ann, despite some flimsy pretenses to the contrary, is bent on catching a tame husband. After a good deal of shooting, roping and racing, and without offending either the S.P.C.A. or the Johnston Office, both of them get what they are after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Connally. "What do you want us to do-just sit down and let Russia absorb the world and do nothing about it?" Equally annoyed but more restrained, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg chided Wallace: "I cannot condone your conduct in going about insisting that your country ... is bent on world conquest in one form or another." But in two hours of shouted questions and evasive answers, Henry Wallace had one response which nobody challenged. Said Henry: "I think for her own interests Russia would be utterly foolish to carry out a policy of expansion at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Next Witness | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Three students this morning cornered a burly prowler under an attic bed on 9 Bow Street, stripped him of his glasses and his top coat, bent a poker over his skull, and then lot the intruder slip from their grasp and escape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morning Prowler Flees 3 Students In Bow St. Raid | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

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