Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...displayed to the joint cabinets statistics proving that East Prussia, handicapped by isolation, can; not prosper unless temporarily subsidized. The cabinets, impressed, but faced with a necessity to economize, hesitated. Came Hindenburg. . . . He spoke as the civilian President of the Republic, but those who listened saw in their mind's eye the great Commander-in-Chief who, in 1914, had flung back the Russian armies from that same East Prussia which he was trying now to save again. German decorum kept secret the nature of the plea made by Old Paul von Hindenburg, but German patriotism made refusal...
...matter how entertainingly written. That was shrewd self-management, remarked the Presbyterians, and his formula made the rounds of the ministers. Last week it appeared again-in William H. Leach's magazine on parish administration, Church Management. Editor Leach revived it in warning ministers against the "newspaper mind [which] knows all about the day's happenings in a jumbled, chaotic sort of way" and does not think. Nor should ministers permit themselves, Editor Leach admonished, to organize their sermons, as so many do, "in about the same way that newspapers are organized [with] a bit of politics...
...ancient with an inventive mind discovered by cutting off the butt end of a feather on a bevel that he had a tube shaped like a reed pen. It also served for writing; it was a quill pen. Who that ancient was no one, of course, knows. However, St. Isidore of Seville, in the early part of the 7th Century, remarked that he was writing his pages with both a kalamos made of a reed and a quill plucked from a bird. Writers used such quills?usually made from the stout wing feathers of the ever-present goose?into...
This was when the ugly duchess was journeying to her marriage. Her husband, the Count of Tyrol, was a sulky child; beneath his mean but not repulsive features he concealed a small mind, as ratlike as his face, and as commonplace. The clever duchess favored her husband's page, Chretien de Laferte; but, in a few years, after she had given him castles and wide lands, the page humbled her by marrying Agnes von Flavon whose stupidity Margarete disdained, whose beauty made her furious. The bitter, hideous little woman had Chretien killed; and when the Count of Tyrol invited Agnes...
...ugly Duchess, the Maultasch, grew old and more hideous and very tired of life. The wisdom and gentility that, had her face been presentable, would have made her a paragon, curdled in her mind to a meagre and ineffective savagery. First she hired many cooks. Then, finding no diversion in the products of their art, she signed away all the lands she had loved, forgot her income, relinquished her estates, retreated, sick and deserted, to sun her blistered skin in a squalid cottage on a fisherman's island...