Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Like many another doctor, I had noticed for a number of years the gross inaccuracies and scientific fallacies which appeared with alarming regularity in medical pictures. I resolved that given the chance, I would bend every effort through the powerfully suggestive medium of pictures to present illness and its treatment in as educative and accurate a manner as possible...
...weapon in 1925, goalposts in the end zones in a game supposed to have taken place in 1913. In 1940 spectators with weightier matters on their minds may have a hard time taking seriously for an hour and thirty-eight minutes the Warners' solemn anxieties about the South Bend ball club...
...gateway to Alaska and the Orient." And proud is Seattle of great, 20-mile-long Lake Washington, which Seattle considers hers although it stretches far beyond the city limits. Lake Washington is beautiful but sometimes a nuisance. Seattle's main gateway to the east is North Bend on the Sunset Highway, until recently a 42-mile ride. The road could have been 14 miles shorter had not Lake Washington lain athwart...
...Colorado, ranchers were getting in hay for the long winter snows; in Texas they were pitching horseshoes, getting ready for the fall roundup, looking over some of the finest Hereford cattle in the world at an exposition in Marfa in the Big Bend country. In Louisiana, where a Caribbean hurricane spread havoc last month, flooding out rice, breaking sugar cane, killing livestock, cotton picking started last week, the sugar mills tuned up, the first of the State's 47 fairs were opening, and at night the levees were studded with the bright fires of fish fries and shrimp boils...
...Park, that is as necessary as a tribute to Robert E. Lee once was in the South. But the Senator, who still farms land that he worked on as a boy, called it the iron road, the name given it by the people who followed it - "from the Great Bend of the Missouri to the banks of the Willamette, following the valleys of the Kaw, the Platte, the Sweetwater, the Snake and the lordly Columbia; fording streams . . . suffering hunger, thirst and sickness aggravated by strange diets and exposure - and leaving thousands of un marked graves beside the trail." Their trek...