Word: bent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dickinson piped: ". . . If you have faith, and apply the Golden Rule, you can get together." For two hours his pupils did unto each other as they had been done by for weeks, swapping acrimonies and getting nowhere. The Governor pared his nails, enjoined his guests to have faith, occasionally bent an ear to the whisperings of his omnipresent adviser, "Judge" Emerson R. Boyles. Once Mr. Dickinson burst out at Mr. Keller: "Do you mean you refuse cooperation?" Chrysler's smooth, ingratiating Attorney Nicholas Kelley referred gently to "our friends across the table," said: "I can't believe...
...last winter Dr. John Henry McLeod of Washington bent over an eight-month-old baby who lay coughing and rattling in his crib. The baby had a bad case of flu, as he could tell for sure when he examined under the microscope slides made from the baby's tears and saliva. What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu. To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine. Against the Hemophili he had no weapons...
...aren't so sure but what the undergraduates win the first decision for sobriety and realism. A nation should be able to look to its intellectual and spiritual leaders for moderating counsel to support, not destroy the neutral temper of a great nation, bent on staying at peace. We are inclined to agree with the Crimson that there have been notable failures in this respect. . . . We believe that the direct interest of the undergraduates makes them equal in importance as a pressure group to their teachers, for all their prestige. Boston Transcript...
...never in my life had such a naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...
...slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars at fancy salaries while he let brilliant young instructors of undergraduates go. Harvardmen began to think that Chemist Conant was more adept at test-tube work than at human equations...