Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his first morning's awakening in New Delhi to breathe "an air that was like some noble nourishment, distilled to rarity," Taylor determined to cultivate his awareness of India. He diagnosed the "sahib sickness" of British colonials and U.S. officers alike as "spiritual avitaminosis" (vitamin deficiency), caused by...
Every right-fingered, mechanical-minded American knows that ordinary Amplitude Modulation (AM) radio was a vast improvement over the early crystal and cat's whisker variety. Not so many know that Frequency Modulation (FM) radio is almost as big an improvement over AM. Comparatively few, in fact, have actually...
But Shakers were also intensely practical. Mother Ann insisted that her converts be "hand-minded." "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God," she said. The furniture they made, first for themselves and later for sale, was strong and simple. Yet it is some of the most beautiful...
U.S.C. chose big, affable, 51-year-old Fred Dow Fagg Jr., dean of the faculties at Northwestern University. Fred Fagg is an air-minded administrator whom Franklin Roosevelt once picked to reorganize the Bureau of Air Commerce. Fagg founded Northwestern's Air Law Institute, the nation's first...
Tall, slender, and unmistakably English, 32-year-old Monica Dickens has the feminine fragility of her great-grandfather's heroines, but she is considerably stronger-minded. To get material for her first book, One Pair of Hands, she astonished her conservative, upper-middle-class family by becoming a cook...