Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past months have been brilliant with scientific achievement; vistas have opened up which dazzle the mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns...
INTO this volume are collected the shorter writings of Prof. Chafee of the Law School on freedom of thought and action in their many manifestations. To the undergraduate perhaps the most interesting chapter is that on "The Inquiring Mind" itself. In it is to be found a very able refutation to the beliefs of such men as Mr. Slocum, who in the current Advocate, for instance, urges less time on studies and more on sports and extra curriculum activities. Prof. Chafee believes that the four years of college life can be put to better use, and in general, it must...
...rest of the book discusses recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court on cases affecting civil liberties. Prof. Chafee, a confessed supporter of capital and our present form of government, displays an extraordinary breadth of mind. In almost all the cases discussed, even in those arising from the famous Sacco-Vanzetti and Bimba trials, he finds that civil liberties were invaded by the powers that be. But Prof. Chafee, because he does not display the obvious prejudice of such journals as "The Nation," is very convincing. Prof. Chafee is a conservative, but he does not approve of the methods...
Walter Lippmann, always an extremely lucid writer, turns on the Scopes trial and Mayor Bill Thompson's campaign against English propaganda a mind trained to observe and comment. His series of six brief essays turns both cases around and upside down, exhibiting to the reader far more facets than he would ordinarily have considered...
...some smooth-fingered fellow near Alfred thought he would hang the room in red, the cardinals colors, so as to be ready for Al." The fact is that green to red is the signal from stop to go, and shows nothing more dangerous than the immutable Coolidge cast of mind, relieved by a certain love of symbolism in surroundings...