Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observance of noteworthy anniversaries can play a valuable part in our thought and action. The year 1873, which saw the establishment of the Harvard CRIMSON, carries the mind back to the early days of Doctor Eliot's long and notable administration and brings it forward, decade by decade, through all the changes in the life of Harvard which seventy eventful years have witnessed...
...understanding and appreciation that goes deeper than common tolerance are certainly included. Intellectual and editorial honesty, willingness to accept and consider criticism from any source, and the maintenance of breadth and varsity in personnel as well as ideas are others. But the most important virtues, to my mind, are balance and courage, temperance and nerve...
...University of Michigan committee to make the first academic study of individual newspapers, and to grade them closely on performance of their perpetual obligation to present a balanced and unbiased and intelligible picture of human affairs day by day. . . . Editorial pages should be analyzed for clarity and breadth of mind; financial pages for the general accuracy of the gobbledegook they use for English; columnists for evidence of hardened minds or ulterior influences...
Even with the help of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ada Lois Sipuel, who is a Negro, couldn't get into the University of Oklahoma law school. The Court, which made up its mind in an almost unprecedented hurry, had told the State of Oklahoma to give Ada an education equal to what whites get (TIME, Jan. 19). And at least one of the judges made it plain that a law school for just one pupil is no legal education at all. But this week the Oklahoma state regents established a school of law at Oklahoma City (as part...
...hour Hughes dickered with Odium about buying Atlas' RKO holdings. The best guess about the price: around $8,000,000. Then Hughes flew back to his Beverly Hills home to make up his mind. To the press Odium complained: "Under today's almost panicky conditions in Hollywood (TIME, Jan. 19) [no one] has the combined money and nerve to meet the faith of Atlas Corp. in the industry...