Word: minded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smoot's summary conversion showed plainly that Mr. Hoover had made up his mind about what he wants done to the tariff. He wants a higher tariff for agriculture and for a few specific indus tries (not named) which are now in poor condition...
...house-could not possibly be told so well without the sound device. For once, the voices, in spite of still imperfect reproduction, give life to the characterizations-H. B. Warner's Englishman, Ruth Chatterton's faithless wife. Best shot: Miss Chatterton on the sofa making up her mind...
Only a superb mind could note and keep track of all those people, all their attributes, all their movements. Albert Einstein's is such a superb mind...
After that debate, Evolution seemed to slip quietly out of the public press and mind. But actually fundamentalists and anti-evolutionists were banding together, distributing propaganda. In California blossomed the Bryan Bible League; in Philadelphia, the World's Christian Fundamentals Association. Elsewhere in the U. S. started the American Anti-False Science League, the Fundamentalist League, the Anti-Evolution League. The names BRYAN and DARWIN continued to ring in crowded halls, though afte-the Scopes climax the newspapers paid small attention. Mississippi and Arkansas followed the lead of Tennessee, passed laws against the teaching of Evolution in State-supported schools...
...need to express nebulous impressions in concrete language, and the shrewd lawyer, facetiously tilting and impaling but hampered by lack of the factual material of law. Sir Joseph grew lugubrious, exasperated, weary. Said he: "Last night I did not get a wink of sleep. All night my mind was filled with images of pictures going round and round. How long is this sort of thing going to last, do you think...