Word: bents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With few exceptions those who air views on the American people's state of mind in regard to our foreign policy seem to be of the opinion that our nation is bent on fostering ideals of democracy for the whole world, or defending the world from Hitlerism...
...Many girls join the uniformed services because they provide the best means of finding male company. Some are evidently bent on marriage. Others enjoy the opportunity of keeping company with many men. It was rumored that 25 pregnant girls in the W.A.A.F. all named one R.A.F. man as the father of their expected children...
Late into the afternoon the organization of Love and Bollos, boated in a streamlined but rather leaky skiff, labored to remove the flees which had been loosened up. The Freshman mentor, who went through college as a coxswain, bent to the oars while Bolles, with four years of college rowing behind him, sat in the stern armed with a formidable bouthook, with which he attempted to wheedle flees of ice ranging as big as 120 by 45 feet through the arches of the Anderson bridge...
...enough rhythm for Astaire. Faced with this lack of terpsichorean ability in his partner, Fred must spend most of "Second Chorus" blowing a trumpet on which he obviously doesn't know the difference between the valves and the mouthpiece. As perennial collegians with a bent for music, he and Burgess Meredith tootle their way through a spottily amusing show. Artie Shaw is along just for the ride...
...other general fields like Sociology. To get anything from Philosophy requires considerable concentration and also work with one's tutor. The tutorial, however, is very good as are the majority of lectures. Therefore the field is to be highly recommended for concentration if you're of a theoretical bent, and for general courses if you want a background of ideas for a more specific field. It is an excellent field to combine particularly with Classics, Fine Arts, English, Sociology, History, Government, or Economics...