Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--The 78th Congress, bent on strict government economy, receives from President Roosevelt tomorrow an unprecented budget expected to propose more than $100,000,000,000 in federal spending in the fiscal year beginning July...
...Smith," emerges in a daze from an asylum on Armistice Night, 1918. A jolly, warmblooded music-hall actress, Paula (Miss Garson), picks him up in the fog, nurses him to health and the altar. They are happily tucked away in a little cottage, complete with baby, when "Smithy," job-bent, is jolted from his amnesia by a street accident in Liverpool and remembers he is Charles Rainier, son of an aristocratic family. Unaware of cottage, wife and child, he goes home to Random Hall to resume life as an aristocrat, becomes an industrial tycoon...
Like the practice, the theory sounds almost too simple. When light is focused on a film by a lens, the various colors do not come to a focus at exactly the same distance from the lens. Violet and blue light are more sharply bent in their path than is red, hence focus nearer to the lens. If the blues are sharply in focus in the upper layer of a photographic film, then the reds will be in focus deeper in the film. This is well known under the name of chromatic aberration. Birch-Field's novel realization is that...
...Germans to this desire the United Nations must understand Germany. To understand Germany they must reject the oversimple notion that Germany is incorrigibly militaristic, unalterably bent on domination. Dorothy Thompson analyzes Germany as two-sided, two-minded, schizophrenic. Says she: "The world is sick and tired of German wars that are apparently fought by Germany partly for the purpose of determining through them what the German destiny may be. ... We are all heartily sick of suffering with her. If the German mind cannot make itself up, then we must make it up for her, by force...
...Boston, in one of the biggest upsets in a decade, a hell-bent-for-larceny Holy Cross eleven shoved its old and powerful rival, Boston College, out of the undefeated ranks (55-to-12), gloatingly robbing it of its bid to the Sugar Bowl. (Instead, Sugar Bowl promoters invited the Tulsa Hurricanes to meet the once-beaten University of Tennessee...