Word: mind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stearns, leader of the '42 team, typifies the Sophomores: he has spirit--works hard and once tried unsuccessfully to throw a newspaperman into the pool: he has a measure of speed, and he enjoys pulling his rotund body through the water. So do his classmates. With these things in mind, Mr. Ulen, who hasn't had a n natural swimmer since Art Bosworth, can almost let a smile cruse his stormy countenance...
...burrow unseen within a beautiful and apparently strong house; then, suddenly, the house collapses. It was something like that with people. Jealousy, like a poison--perhaps like a cancer; but worse, since a cancer, if discovered early, can be cured--constantly, subtly tries to gain acceptance in the mind. Once the entering wedge is injected, every incident, every word, every expression can be twisted to the support of a pre-determined conclusion...
...Reader Merriam (wife of University of Chicago's famed political science professor), TIME'S thanks for the inside story. She is not to be confused with her fellow juror, Mrs. Katherine Merrifield, wife of a Northwestern professor, whose change of mind caused a mistrial...
Those who saw the picture found it far less thrilling as propaganda than interesting as a clue to the mental aberration known as censor's mind. The film is a dullish cinematizing of Shephard Traube's weakish story, Goose Step, portraying the sufferings in a concentration camp of a group of anti-Nazis of no particular politics. Most of them are finally released. Their leader (Roland Drew) escapes with no more trouble than it takes to run across a field to a hay cart, finds it just as easy to rejoin his wife (Steffi Duna) in Switzerland...
...will be the seizure of Bessarabia, which is now a part of Rumania. Russia lost three territories as a result of the last war: Finland, some parts of Poland, and Bessarabia. She has already regained two of them, and it is my guess that she may have it in mind to get back the third...