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Word: minded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thank you in advance for your attention to my modest request. I hope that we will both see the time when, in the mind of the layman, Mars will cease to rule on a celestial throne, but will take residence with his friend and cohort, Satan, in the bowels of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...MacDonald's morning's work of mediation. The real subject of the Norman-MacDonald-Lamont conference, however, was the reparations situation at The Hague where fiery Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden seemed intent on bending or breaking the Young Plan. In making up his mind whether to back Battler Snowden to the limit the Prime Minister must know the attitude of the fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through the night, finally issued a startling manifestation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Edinburgh Conferences | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Last week one shrewd doctor decided that she had hiccoughed so long she had forgotten what it was like not to hiccough, was therefore psychologically incapable of helping herself. He gave her a strong, nauseating drug, put her to sleep. When she awoke her mind was so occupied with her new, counter-irritating misery that she forgot to hiccough, was cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hiccoughs | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Three things which the public mind associates vividly with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Silver Tradition | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...When you read the names of the following persons, what fact is immediately associated with them in your mind? Answer in one or two words in each case. Mendeleff, Davy, Perkin, Faraday, Curie, Priestley, Gay-Lussac, Dalton, Solvay, Ramsay, Lavoisier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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