Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bilbo was attacked by his onetime law partner, Gambrell Austin Hobbs, in typical Mississippi oratory. Wrote Mr. Hobbs: "... A curious compound of audacity and folly, like a child who would make a plaything of the serpent's rattle. His mind does not realize probable results. Emerging from perfect obscurity by the criminal court route, carrying with him the odium of an indignant attempt on the part of the Senate to expel him-he went before the people to tell a story in which his own part had been one of infamy. He assumed the role of martyr. ... I stood...
...revolution. He, mild-mannered, is often seen slouching along the streets to & from the Kremlin in Moscow. He talks fluently in a pleasant manner, is always polite, extremely reserved, but he is neither orator nor scholar, as are many of his comrades. His forte is his presence of mind...
Significance. The significance of such researches in pure science are usually difficult for the lay mind to appreciate. It is plain, however, that the more people know of the nature of matter, the more they can do with that matter. This truism, Professor Karl Taylor Compton of Princeton (brother of Arthur Holly Compton) elaborated only last month at the Founder's Day exercises of Lehigh University. Said he: "Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed...
...Lampoon is ever read till its pictures are exhausted. The poem about the goldfish belonging to the old lady of "singularly wanton frame of mind" is evidently the work of a writer who can do still better. The ballad of the Rotunda pleases by reason of the popuarity of its subject, but no traffic sergeant in Cambridge, Mass., says "wolking" or "goil"--never...
...modern use of propaganda may be said to date from wartime days, when it was the practice of all the combatant nations to send their airplanes over the enemy lines laden with explosives calculated for detonation in the mind of the infantryman. Since that time it is safe to say that no country, including even Britain, has become so expert in the use of this weapon as the United States of Soviet Russia...