Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Wall Street Men. Behind his huge desk, gazing skeptically over the top of his pipe and only occasionally flaring into tightlipped, concise profanity, Forrestal wrought some changes. One of them was to transform the Navy into a businesslike partnership between civilians and brass hats, drawing into the firm such...
One of his colleagues described Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Los Alamos branch of the atomic bomb's Manhattan Project, as "the smartest of the lot." Last week, just before he resigned to go back to teaching physics, tough-minded, 41-year-old Dr. Oppenheimer made the...
In Britain and elsewhere similar groups of high-minded, able men, with personal prestige but without much political following, pursued peace along the same paths. Their most telling argument was the atomic bomb. Yet the bomb, raising doubts about almost everything, had not yet broken down popular reliance on national...
The U.S.-moppets and moppet-minded grownups-buys some 25,000,000 comic books each month. Are they good for children?
A famed child-psychologist and long time professor at the University of Iowa, in 1938, tweedy, babyfaced, middle-aged George Dinsmore Stoddard jolted his colleagues by demonstrating that I.Q.s (supposedly determined at birth) could be altered by environment. The methods: 1) planting some 300 children of feeble-minded parents and...