Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever was in Old John's mind, he played his game with his usual matchless skill. From the Government viewpoint, the contract which Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug had signed with Lewis last spring, after a 59-day strike, seemed foolproof. The Stars & Stripes flew over the 3,300 soft coal mines manned by U.M.W. miners. They could not strike against the Government. There was a law against it -the Smith-Connally...
...Average American, a Moscow lecture audience learned from lionized Littérateur Ilya Ehrenburg, guest in the U.S. last summer, is: a dreamer, overly self-confident, but a man of good intentions, and "no fool." He is politically immature, but there is hope for him; his mind is growing...
...opponents beat themselves. One of them, Stephen Kowalski, was so confused by Reshevsky's tactics that he failed to think up the required 45 moves in two and a quarter hours, and was counted out. Champion Reshevsky never plays chess between tournaments; during them, however, he keeps his mind on chess night & day. His wife, who is just learning the game (out of a book; he won't teach her), says that she has to be very careful not to annoy him during this difficult period. But, she adds: "Sam is really very nice...
Nobody but Einstein and a few other people can understand what goes on in the mind of Nobel Prizewinning atom-smasher Enrico Fermi. But one Fermi theory is intelligible to all, and last week 192 students at the University of Chicago were enjoying its practice. The theory: that elementary science courses must be well taught if students are to do well in advanced classes. At Chicago, for the first time in about 15 years of teaching in Italy and the U.S., Dr. Fermi was teaching an elementary physics class himself...
...traditional dummy bill against "clandestine outlawries," which is not debatable and never gets to a second reading. The Member for Rugby, Independent Will Brown, cried: "There probably was a time when [the Outlawries Bill] was by no means a formal matter and when the House, before it spoke its mind, may well have desired to have guarantees on the subject of outlawry. That form of outlawry has now gone, but there are many other forms of outlawry-and especially the closed shop-which I submit it would be appropriate to discuss...