Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Services for Dr. Soma Weiss, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, and Physician-in-Chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, will be held at 4:30 o'clock at Building C, Harvard Medical School tomorrow afternoon...
While roundly slating the Motherland for its handling of the war, while turning ever more hopeful eyes to Washington, Australia has nevertheless bent her back to the Empire effort, making guns, mortars, howitzers, shells, planes, engines, parachutes, corvettes and destroyers in quantity surprising for a wool-growing country of 7,000,000. Yet, as always when the storm breaks at home, there was still more slack to be taken up, and Australia gave a mighty heave...
...Philippine scouts last week intercepted a Japanese suicide squadron on mountainous Bataan Peninsula, hounded & harried the sabotage-bent visitors into a dense, brush-covered last-stand some 125 yards square. Behind the dense, protective foliage the little men burrowed into foxholes. Snipers tied themselves in trees. So close were the two forces that the Japs' labored breathing was clearly heard. His arm in a bloody sling, Captain C. A. Crome shouted one last ultimatum: "Surrender, you bastards, we've got you surrounded!" The answer floated back in perfect English: "Nerts...
...fear that I shall never forget that face, but I don't see why you should cater to the engaging muripictor's* histrionic bent. I like TIME, but I don't care for that paranoiac pan which mops and mows at me from your weekly pages...
...social incompatibility with the husband. Many of the mothers had serious responsibilities in their own childhoods, such as housework or taking care of brothers and sisters; some had been deprived of normal affection from their own parents. Any combination of these influences, on top of the natural maternal bent, was likely to produce overconcentration on a child. If the mother was over-stern, her child was apt to be a namby-pamby; if she was overindulgent, she reared a tyrant-child...