Word: mind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa" . . . highlights again the significance of Jose Ortega y Gasset's verdict that the world "is suffering from a 'vertical invasion' of the masses; it has been taken over by the commonplace mind" [TIME...
...departmentalized news coverage]. During years of unfolding, refolding, reunfolding and rerefolding papers, I have yearned for such a one. The b.eef reported, "You have to read this paper to find out what's in it," was delightful. I do that with TIME and, really, I don't mind...
...other hand, the huge U.S. oil industry, which had thought last spring that the boom was over, changed its mind. The vast production of new cars, diesel engines, oil heaters, etc. had swelled oil demand so much that the U.S. Bureau of Mines forecast greater demand this year than last. The bright outlook caused oil shares to pace the recent stock market upswing. The market got a new lift this week from the prospect of a settlement of the steel wage dispute (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the first day's trading, steel shares gained as much as a point...
...Classical High School debating society-a man whose mordant irony reminded his auditors of Disraeli and Brann the Iconoclast, although he had scarcely turned 16 -to sift your ashes and beat your carpets at 30? an hour. Even I find it almost too fantastic to credit, and, mind you, I was the recording secretary...
...Criminal Mind. In Clearwater, Fla., 14 green flags stolen from the Clear-water Country Club last Christmas were returned with a note: "Sorry but we can't find any use for these." In Wichita Falls, Tex., F. D. Clark reported the disappearance of a 30-ft. telephone pole from Pocahontas Street. In New Brunswick, N.J., Kenneth Bergen's stolen sport jacket and two pairs of slacks were returned with a note: "Too small...