Word: centredness
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If a child gnaws on his rattle or chews his doll, if he crams his mouth with building blocks or paper, don't let him choke, but otherwise leave him alone. The mouth is an "important organ of investigation." Such was the advice Psychiatrist Alexander Reid Martin gave to...
Loyalist Spain's bitterly fought "war-within-a-war" centred in Madrid and for it General Franco's troops in the nearby trenches had grandstand seats. One of the hardest-fought engagements between the Loyalist factions took place near the old Royal Palace, in West Madrid on the...
Other witness-of-the-week was Thomas R. (for nothing) Amlie, the Red rover from Wisconsin named by Franklin Roosevelt for the Interstate Commerce Commission, chiefly to provoke an airing of that sombre body (TIME, Feb. 6). Lumbering, loquacious Mr. Amlie conducted his self-defense before a Senate subcommittee with...
The third omniscient remained in the bare, concrete barrack on Washington's Constitution Avenue where naval command is centred. To Navy men, Admiral William Daniel Leahy is the Navy. As Chief of Naval Operations, he is a one-man counterpart of the Army's General Staff, wielding a...
What happened when the Queen Mary came abreast of her berth at West 50th Street was no blow to the prestige of the port, but it was a mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream...