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Word: bents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away." > "You boys with your bows & arrows, you be careful. I don't want any of those broadheads [arrows] to hit my broad bottom." Despite these Woodycisms, last week's bowmen bagged nary a buck. One got pretty close, had his bow bent when the deer turned broadside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Chattahoochee | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...shadow of defeat, Chief Boston's Freshman football team is going to find that staying in the sun is no cinch. For in the last two games of 1944's short, five game schedule, the Freshmen will meet two other yearling elevens. Yale and Dartmouth, both bent on concluding their seasons in the successful glow of victory...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/24/1940 | See Source »

...would still be a collection of union drama-clubbers on a spree without the brilliance of Harold Rome, who wrote the lyrics and music, and Joseph Schrank, the man behind the sketches. A few of the tunes, especially "I've Got the Nerve to Be in Love," are hell-bent for the Hit Parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/17/1940 | See Source »

...Sophomores with a journalistic bent are eligible to try out for the editorial, photographic, and business boards of the CRIMSON, starting this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the office at 14 Plympton Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORES CAN TRY OUT FOR ED, BUSY, PHOTO JOBS TONIGHT | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

...Incident" is no rippin', rarin', shootin', swearin' type of wooly Western bellowdrama, with horsemen riding hell bent for leather towards the Mexican border pursued by pop-gun posses. In Clark's book there is only one shooting and three hangings, all told, and even then the fellow that gets shot ain't killed...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

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