Word: detachedness
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By and large Harvard men resent being propagandized more than anything else; they demand a two-sided presentation of thorny questions and willingness on the part of purveyors of information to let them make up their own minds. An application of this theory to tonight's affair should have been...
The table, being largely composed of hardened biologists, was indulging in a scientific and more-or-less detached spirit of free inquiry when disaster suddenly loomed in the person of the headwaitress. Determinedly she scooped up the startled cockroach and aimed him unerringly, as one spectator thought, at his unprotected...
Sian, whence news of the kidnapping was flashed, is almost as remote and centrally located in China as though President Roosevelt were kidnapped among the Rocky Mountains. The kidnapper, Young Marshal Chang, sent out over his military telegraph lines the only account of how his soldiers had detached the Generalissimo...
Last week Nanking was roaring at the latest exploit of Chinese Foreign Minister Chang Chun in "kidding" the Imperial Japanese Government. Tokyo had demanded that Japanese troops be permitted to join the anti-Communist forces of Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in any Chinese province into which these...
Dr. Beck told his colleagues at Philadelphia that a patient who came to him for an operation to relieve hardening of a coronary artery had a 50-50 chance to survive. Taking the chance, Surgeon Beck opened the man's chest, detached a length of pectoral muscle, made a...