Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southern Democrat, found himself in an awkward position just before Christmas that year. He was far from home and had been so busy with his Field Artillery, which he organized and shepherded through the St. Mihiel offensive, the Meuse and the Argonne, that social duties slipped his mind. Probably there was no book of etiquette at hand in his spare military headquarters. Possibly it would not have helped him anyway. A delicate question faced him. A great Democrat, he had no Christmas present for the greatest Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson. The shops around Luxembourg were bare. He particularly needed...
...automobiles and swept up to the gate of Count von Bentincks castle. Guards objected. Col. Lea's eloquence and the irresistible atmosphere of the Americans prevailed. The great gates opened. Within the castle a shrewd secretary appeared. Parley. The Kaiser was not immediately available. Would the Americans mind waiting just a little? The Americans were disinclined to wait, but already they had delayed too long. Dutch guards, grimly armed and in increasing numbers, tramped in from the chill night. Col. Lea and his supporters were forced reluctantly to leave without their Christmas present...
...Arboretum, Artistically and economically its influence might well be said to extend throughout the world. It certainly fills a unique place in American, and while the importance of the study of plant genetics and the hybridization of trees may present only vague and jejune append to the public mind, comparatively little botanical sympathy or inclination is prerequisite to a realization of the artistic and economic need for forest preservation and plant pathology. The greatness of the Arboretum rests upon the fact that it is a pioneer, in this field, and, its objective being of national importance, financial hindrance...
...writer includes himself in this category) to whom any sort of lecture or sermon is a well-nigh intolerable infiction, and if one is compelled to sit still while somebody continuously talks on a subject which one can more comfortably read for oneself, one develops an attitude of mind resistant to all influence...
Naturally, large numbers of students are of this type of mind, and either posess or rapidly develop an immunity to lecturing. Since it has been admitted that in our universities there are far too many lectures, our sympathy is, on the whole, with the students...