Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went along while he parked his motorcycle wondering what in hell he had on his mind. Any way I was ready for anything. He came back and says 'Got fifty?'. I reached in my pocket and took out a roll and handed him over fifty. 'That just about cleans me', I said. 'You see I'm new at the game, just started last week'. 'Oh, well in that case', he said, 'no one can say I'm a hog; here take ten back. Now run along and make your deliveries; I'll watch your car while you're gone...
...entire interior structure of the building is arranged with the greatest possible forethought so that coming generations will not find themselves hampered by architectural features built with only the present in mind. To this end the partitions between seminars, lecture halls, and so forth have been built with the understanding that they may some day be rearranged. Even the reading tables are built in sections so that they can be lengthened or changed...
Optimism effected Helen Keller. With blind eyes she envisioned practical consequences tomorrow of what was wisest to do today. Through only a month of this practical optimism, she learned language at the age of seven. Miss Keller's career has also a social significance. The mind of no other deaf-blind has been reached so successfully, by such a variety of people. No longer are deaf-blinds classed with idiots in the statutes of any progressive State. No longer are deaf-blinds permitted to withdraw from society into their aching shells. To the Forest Hills, L. I. door of Helen...
...international bank makes the problem of reparations a really international one; the only criticism in my mind is, that the location of the bank in Germany instead of in a neutral country would have advanced its aims before actual operations were commenced...
...presenting themselves for non-professional degrees. The proposal of Mr. Snedder provides for a college with no degrees and no entrance examinations, an institution with emphasis on preparation for a vocation. The substance of his objection is that the present educational system affords no place for the purely academic mind and advances the student no farther along the road to the attainment of his vocation...