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Word: bents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran nerve campaigner of Berchtesgaden was not idle. Angered by his reverses in Russia and Libya, undoubtedly bent on some recuperative blow, he appeared to be covering his retreats with a barrage of rumors calculated to test the reactions of possible opponents or "collaborators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Again, the Nerves | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Animus. In every way, by feeling, by training, by detailed experience, Isoroku Yamamoto has all his life been bent to one task: defeat the U.S. and Britain in the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Yamamoto v. the Dragon | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Contributions will be received at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at 721 Huntington Avenue, and donors should phone Kenmore 6236 to make appointments. The regular time for giving blood will be from 6:30 to 7:30 o'clock, but if enough men cannot make an appointment at that time, another hour will be arranged. Anyone who wishes to go at some other time, or who has a car be could use, is asked to phone Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Prompts Red Cross Call For Donors of Blood Plasma | 12/10/1941 | See Source »

...Coquitlam, B.C., one Henry Steen felt something sticky on the sole of his shoe, bent down to scrape it off, unstuck a $100 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1941 | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Next day Stephens' startled Daddy and girls heard still more shocking talk. Exclaimed Dr. Leslie Benjamin Hohman, famed Johns Hopkins psychiatrist (author of As The Twig Is Bent): "Don't marry a soldier just because he wears a uniform. . . . Marriage in this country is based too much on romantic ideals. Romance is the whipped cream of marriage. . . . Whole civilizations have been founded on the theory of marriage without love; for example, the French marriage of convenience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Razzberries for Housewives | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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