Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly fair to arraign the undergraduate press alone for superficiality. A flow of printer's ink is the only division between the mass of students and the student editor. If cynic flippancy and supreme omniscience till the editorial pages, they are only the expression of one mind or the others of ill-directed curiosity that misses the value of circumspection, typical of the undergraduate attitude of today. The papers have become truer mirrors of current ideas than they ever tried...
...Kingdom of God. "Mr. Heywood Broun . . . observed of the performance . . . that I had given the impression, in the most poignant moment of the drama, of a barge woman. What is the explanation of it all? I don't know. After looking into my own mind, I have sometimes wondered if perhaps the accusations might not be laid to the critic himself...
...Only a woman could have shuffled so shamelessly, only a woman could have abandoned with such unscrupulous completeness the last shreds not only of consistency, but of dignity, honor and common decency, in order to escape the appalling necessity of having, really and truly, to make up her mind. Yet it is true that . . . male courage, male energy . . . she also possessed...
With these facts firmly in mind it is not difficult to understand why Brazil has demanded for herself a permanent seat on the Council of the League of Nations; and why she withdrew from the League when this legitimate aspiration was denied her (TIME, June 21, 1926). Shrewdly the statesmen of Brazil claim that the League of Nations will continue to be dominated by a selfish little gang of European states, so long as no American nation and no Asiatic nation except Japan is permanently seated on the Council...
...last week. He was heard of in Shanghai, where he was suffering and recovering from a slight nervous breakdown and bronchitis. Before he disappeared, he wrote a letter to his physician, as follows: "I came to China seeking peace and quiet and hoping that here at least people would mind their business and allow me to mind mine. But I have found more snoops and gossips per square inch than in any New England town of 1,000 inhabitants. This does not apply to American newspaper correspondents who have been most decent carrying out their duties in a most gentlemanly...