Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York University offered a new course in practical education-a course in "Smells." Designed for future perfume experts, the course will try to teach the student that he smells not with his nose but with his mind...
...changed much," he answered. "There's still the bloody boss. With the old owners you at least knew where you stood. They were out to get the biggest slice they could, and to hell with us miners. But this Government can't seem to make up its mind and it interferes in the wrong places. You should see some of the red tape and regulations clerks that never saw a pit face can dream...
...Cripps family was long on M.P.s (Stafford is the ninth of his line to sit in the House of Commons) and lawyers (both his father and grandfather were at the bar). But young Stafford's quick mind first turned to science. He loved to take the family car to pieces and put it together again. After his schooling at Winchester, a near-perfect examination paper in science won him a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and a job on the research staff of Sir William Ramsay at the University of London...
...reasons. It is really nothing more than a vignette, which through the author's sensitivity and ability to project, keeps a unity of mood and feeling. Though this work is limited in scope and almost completely unexciting, it does accomplish the difficult task of getting into a child's mind and making the child stay human. "Apprentice" fails in describing children. The little boy involved is repeatedly and annoyingly referred to as "the cube-shaped boy," a bit of unexplained whimsy that is not easy to digest...
...some years student politics has been identified in the public mind with that peculiar and insidious brand of milk socialism which has been the monotonous prelude to the totalitarianism now systematically pulverizing Western Europe," the club announced in a release yesterday...