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Word: mindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The time has come, I think, for someone to launch a vigorous protest against the use of "brass hats" in the derogatory way it is usually employed in your magazine. You always seem to imply that all "brass hats" are pompous, narrow-minded obstructionists and that the war would get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Do you think that when a man reaches senior rank his mind automatically shuts? Such a generalization is ridiculous. Of course, there are some brass hats who are stuffed shirts. There are also countless numbers of them who are alert, open-minded men spending every ounce of thought, knowledge and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Flossy, ad-packed American Druggist's stock-in-trade is advice on how to dress up a drugstore, on new ways to sell Epsom salts, etc. Not so the July issue, out this week. For hot-weather reading, Druggist's 60,000 subscribers were served up 13 high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peace over the Counter | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

In a learned editorial the science-minded New York Times painstakingly picked flaws in the sun-gun idea, concluded austerely: "There is reason ... to believe that the rocket experts were merely dreaming over their ersatz beer." But what the Germans had already done was amazing enough.*Lieut. Colonel Keck'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sun Gun | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Bishop Wand's new post is sure to please sport-minded Anglicans. Onetime president of the Queensland Soccer Association, he expects to take an active interest in the Fulham Football Club-"if I am asked." In Brisbane, he once created a sensation by announcing that he had no objection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Bishop | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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