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Word: mindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This newspaper will not take sides in the November elections until later. There certainly can be no doubt, however, that every American who cares about the outcome of the current international crisis should approach public issues clearly searching for the oft-criticized "lesser of evils"--if that is the sorry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Year After | 6/10/1948 | See Source »

For Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, it was an hour of decision. Time & again APRA's husky leader had been outmaneuvered in the bitter struggle for power between Right and Left. This time APRA's enemies seemed ready for a finish fight. Even democratically minded President Jose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Command Decision | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

On a muggy afternoon last week, the 15 boys and 25 girls (spelling is a literal-minded business) clustered around microphones in the National Press Club for the finals. After a few rounds of easy ones, the spellers began to trip. Escutcheon, toboggan, chrysalis, mollify, appurtenant, desecrate, diaphanous, discernible, penitentiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Toboggan to Psychiatry | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Miss Hellman's play is the kind a stage cast can really sink its teeth in; and it has been screened with a Broadway kind of incisiveness. It isn't in any pure sense a movie; but under Michael Gordon's direction it is a nearly perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Even simple-minded animals, such as fish, seem to size up situations. Male fish of nest-building species chase other males off their premises. They welcome nubile females. To the human observer it looks as if they judge approaching fish, determine their sex and promise, and act accordingly. But this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Not So Smart | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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