Word: bende
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...believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion, and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman." Having thus enjoined the S.R.O. audience at his first of three fall lectures as Oxford's new Professor of Poetry, British Litterateur Robert Graves, 66, last week wound up the series with a final cautionary note to young ladies who dream of becoming an artist's inspiration: "Too many irresponsible young women, eager...
...great advantage of the hyperbolic paraboloid is that, because of a rather devious characteristic of the surface, a carpenter building the form does not have to bend his wood. "I am not a mathematician," Mr. Candela asserts, "and this is difficult to explain." Perhaps the easiest way to understand the principle is to remember that at any point on a saddle a straight line may be drawn which does not leave the surface, as it would, for example, with a sphere. And where the geometrician can draw straight lines, the carpenter can nail planks...
...malicious attacks. Professional planners, who are thoroughly trained in the social and behavioral sciences, share her concern. Most of Jacobs' slanted facts are correct, but her whipping boy-should be the quacks, who parade as public or private planners because they have funds to invest or can bend over a drawing board...
...ability to bend toward the masses makes Beltran a first-rank contender for next May's presidential election, running along the middle road. He also has an innate courage that may yet convince the Indians of his desire for change...
...leads the connecting wire through a tunnel under the skin to another incision in the abdomen, just to the left of the navel. He sets the pacemaker on a bed of abdominal muscle. Only 2 by 3 by ½ in., it is so compact that the patient can bend double without feeling it. The battery should last four to five years, and failure is not fatal. The heart jogs along until the battery is replaced...