Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio he soon won a name as a man with the community on his mind. Besides his ministering, Dr. Baker put in long extracurricular hours on welfare, race and labor problems for public and private agencies. Clevelanders warmed up to his quiet but intense manner, rated him a hard worker...
...Buick divisions still plan to bring out 1948 models some time and all G.M. divisions will bring out their 1947 models early next year. They will be practically the same as 1946 models (only changes: "identification" changes in radiator grilles and decorations). G.M. still has time to change its mind on 1948 models, if competitors force...
...Wall. "Cecil B. DeMille is out of fashion among the critics. But ... I have seen The Sign of the Cross twice over and am still an unrepentant admirer. There is no director to touch him in command of the medium: certainly none who strikes such awe into my professional mind . . . [with] his crowds and continuities, yes, and images too. ... How good and fine an artist he is may possibly be another matter. . . . I like both his bathtubs and his debauches, for the sufficient (I hope technical) reason that they are the biggest and the best in cinema. No man short...
...year" poll of critics, not a single book got the votes of all reviewers. The best that could be said was that 1946 furnished spectacular cash-register successes. Betty MacDonald's cackling (1945) hen epic, The Egg and I, went to some 1,200,000 copies; Peace of Mind, Joshua Loth Liebman's "blue skies" book (the trade name for a consoling self-help handbook) sold over 250,000 copies, largely on its title. A string of novels (see box), most of them with gaudy jackets and tinny texts, sold extravagantly, some of them over...
...blatantly showed the name of the only potential enemy in sight, a practice not considered good manners at the start of the year. Only a few of 1946's substantial histories were wholly above the battle, among them Joseph Dorfman's two-volume The Economic Mind in American Civilization (1606-1865); Sylvanus G. Morley's The Ancient Maya. In a class by itself was Yale Professor F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, a study of international cultures...