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Word: mindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Were not the I. C. C. a serious-minded body its Plan might have been entitled: "How to divide 250,000 miles of railroad into 19 systems and juggle them all into the air at once." The Commission had drawn up a set of instructions for this breathtaking feat, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

"I met the General at a banquet in Texas ten years ago," said Printer Crawford, "and for the next three or four years I spent a few days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: What's What | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

South Sea Rose (Fox). As a French girl brought up in the South Seas and taken to New England by a skipper who marries her for her money, Lenore Ulric talks the same baby gutturals she used a couple of weeks ago in Frozen Justice, but the meaning of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Reading Mr. Morris one gets the feeling of sitting at the feet of a clear minded old campaigner who has one or two good stories to tell. The pages turn quickly, the style is pleasantly homely, the interest glows from one point to another. But its worth as a valuation...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: Reminiscences of Walt Whitman | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

They got out, shook hands with the pilot, were addressed by Walter Beech, president of Curtiss-Wright Sales Corp., professed themselves satisfactorily air-minded. Curtiss-Wright proposed to take up at least 500 executives during the winter to familiarize them with air travel, make potential customers for passenger air services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Salesmanship | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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