Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a curiously bent tree growing in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region is no mere freak of nature. It is the handwork of long-dead Indians. In the July Scientific Monthly Geologist Raymond E. Janssen of Evanston, Ill. tells how he settled the puzzle of the crooked trees for which he could find no scientific explanation anywhere. He ran across a few historical references which indicated that "trees were sometimes bent by the Indians to mark trails through the forests." Several summers of study convinced Janssen that the deformed trees are surviving guideposts...
Trees gnarled by accident most often bend from their bases. But genuine Indian markers show "acute or right-angled bend in their main trunks, usually from two to five feet above their bases. Rising vertically from the bent trunks are one or more . . . secondary trunks...
...Good -Housekeeping's Attorney Isaac W. Digges called the FTC charges "vague, uncertain, undefinite, confused, confusing, argumentative, ambiguous, self-contradictory, conclusory and unintelligible." Hearst Magazines General Manager Richard Berlin charged that the attack on Good Housekeeping's 35-year-old seal business was inspired by subversive groups bent on destroying advertising altogether...
...Greeks were hell-bent on doing just that when Mustafa Kamâl and his Young Turks saved...
...just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York playing Paul Whiteman's old waltz, Wonderful One, on the cornet. A shy official arrives, bent on canceling the pension check, but is so beglamored by the fey, bemused life of the household that he arranges to have the payments continued. An old laborer and the parish priest gather round for a drink and contemplation of the universe. Finally the wandering cornetist comes home and plays Wonderful...