Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half a century ago such acute, social-minded critics as Sidney and Beatrice Webb mistakenly believed that an enlightened British electorate would produce socialism by communal action. Brash young Bernard Shaw, when asked how long it would take to get English socialism into working order, answered airily: "A fortnight would...
One of Philadelphia's distinguished physicians was so absent minded that he forgot his stethoscope when he called late one night to listen to the heart of a lady patient. He leaned down, listened, fell asleep and remained there almost half an hour. The lady thought it "an exceptionally...
The neighborhood was a little hazy about the Mission's exact creed. Most of the people along the street were Irish or Polish Roman Catholics, and they took no interest in its services. But they often heard the organ wheezing away and saw clergymen piously coming & going-there was...
The fact that the talks were still going on this week represented a considerable gain. For Andrei Vishinsky, the mild-mannered, tough-minded Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, had previously played a lone hand in Bucharest, ignoring the Allied Commission and dealing directly with young King Mihai. Perhaps Joseph...
Girl Scouts & Young Republicans. The Russian people struck Bill White as being very like Americans. In endless tours of factories (everything in Russia from a farm to a hospital seemed to be called a factory) he saw young, earnest, sober-minded executives, who looked exactly like the businessmen at a...