Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First, the desirability of getting under one head all the various and sometimes competing functions which have to do with the assembling of materials either for use in process or for consumption incidental to the business: second, to provide the most efficient method of securing proper materials, having in mind economy, quality, delivery, and service third, the keeping in touch with markets of various products which are frequently purchased, and finally, to provide a certain amount of sales resistance in opposition to the professional salesman. It is obvious that only men who understand the requirements of a business are really...
Such an author is Mr. Hill, who endeavors, we are told, to explore the mind and emotions of the adolescent boy in his response to sex, religion and beauty. It would have been simpler, and, perhaps, more exact to have omitted religion and beauty. For the author of "Plundered Host" as for the great majority of the writers of similar works, religion, beauty and all the other objects of emotion, are synonymous with sex; their religion has its origin below the belt, and their beauty is almost invariably lighted by a red lamp...
...book collector's service to the mind of mankind cannot be overestimated. Private collections are a joy to their possessor, and often enable scholarship to perform work more congenially than is possible in a public institution. By placing their valuable possessions at the disposal of scholars and learned societies, many collectors have enriched literature. By their public spirit they have glorified public collections. It is not difficult to realize the value to scholars, and thence to literature, of the accessibility of books in such collections as the Widener at Harvard, the Huntington in California, and the Morgan in New York...
...days it was felt that a "terrific line" was essential for success in salesmanship. Today, there are two requirements for success in salesmanship. First, a man should have a clear, alert, open mind, and be honest, both commercially and intellectually. Second, he should have a capacity for sustained, hard work. Under the first heading he should be able to meet his prospect on even ground and discuss his problems intelligently. Under the second heading he must be able to ring door bells, either metaphorically or literally, day after day, always having in mind that the way to get new customers...
...central and eastern Europe the frontiers of nationality are not clearly defined geographically. This is a point that must be kept constantly in mind in discussing the question of racial minorities, one of the most dangerous questions in European politics of the present day and quite as menacing to the cause of peace as the reparations problem or the problem of disarmament. Just because of the fact that the European nationalities merge gradually into one another, and because of the fact that there are, in various localities of eastern Europe, isolated racial islands embedded in the larger national blocks...