Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began to be talked about as Wallace's running mate the day after Henry announced his third party. For a while Taylor was coy, but this week he made up his mind. He went on the air in Washington with a speech entitled "Is This the Time for a Third Party?" His not surprising answer: yes. He accepted the invitation to be Henry Wallace's candidate for Vice President of the U.S., and said: "I am, going to feel good inside...
...after Harry Truman produced his half-a-loaf message on aid for China, he also made up his mind about Palestine. After a final, bitter week of intra-Cabinet wrangling, he decided to leave things exactly as they were. To U.N. Delegate Warren Austin went the President's instructions: no retreat from partition...
...long run, that emphasis might be justified. But in Western Europe last week, there were fresh stirrings of the notion that politics-and political security -needed attending to. Nobody had been quite sure what Britain's heavy-handed Ernest Bevin had had in mind when he made his gesture toward Western European union last month. Europeans hoped he was talking about more than customs agreements. The British starting point on a Western Union, it had developed, was a system of pacts similar to the Anglo-French 50-year alliance (Treaty of Dunkirk) against "German aggression...
Most of the writing is by those whose efforts have appeared in past numbers of the Advocate, and with one salient exception, they have all published better work. The exception is A. K. Lewis' powerful and consummate story, "Willie Ibid," which explores a veteran's mind and still remains objective and crisp. Lewis is at his best when characterizing the standard of American morality, seen in dirty side show of an amusement park. "A group of people filed out of the concession--...a man with a woman clinging to his arm and giggling covertly, and an old man grinning with...
...College's philosophy in the recent past seems to have been "Here is a library, here is a lecturer, here are a few examinations--take it or leave it." If the lecturer happened to have that rare ability to stimulate the mind of the student by mere lecturing, so much the better, but this seems to be only a secondary consideration in the employment of instructors. Harvard University is often more interested in brilliant research, to the advantage of the University and at the expense of the College. The result is that Harvard's reputation as a great research center...