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Word: mindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economy-minded old Benjamin Franklin had argued at the Constitutional Convention against paying U.S. Presidents anything but their expenses. Combine power and profit in the presidency, warned Franklin, and the nation would get not the best men for the job, but the most avaricious, "the bold and the violent." Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Laundry Is Free | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

The rain forced dignified Governor Millard F. Caldwell to cut short a resume of his administration. But it stopped as soon as the new man, handsome, greying, jovial Fuller Warren, stepped up. Warren was wearing a frock coat which hit him below the knees, but nobody minded. Cried he: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Done Up Classy in Tallahassee | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Princess Wilhelmina, who abdicated last September as Queen of The Netherlands, finally got her pension approved by the Dutch parliament, which decided, despite grumbles from a guilder-minded minority, that 400,000 ($151,000) a year was not too much for an ex-queen who had given 50 years'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Idle Hours | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

This newspaper will not knuckle under to the fears that are gripping the timid, the small-minded, and the owners of ski resorts; it is just such a super-natural, cosmic crisis that can call forth in the individual a stamina and vigor which transcends ordinary, day-to-day courage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eastport to Block Island | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

Thomas Burke is one of the few men in Cambridge who can tell a woman off and get away with it. Patrolman Burke puts in more than ten hours each weekday in publicly villifying errant drivers, jay-walkers, and absent-minded pedestrians from his green-painted booth in Harvard Square...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: "Wait for the traffic light, please. . .? | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

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