Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In pre-bomb days, the world of higher physics had been small and contentedly isolated, inhabited by men who were completely international-minded. There were no frontiers between the scientists, no secrets among them. World War II had changed all that, and brought the scientists face to face with power...
¶ Able, Western-minded T. V. Soong, President of the Executive Yuan and the Generalissimo's brother-in-law.
Moholy-Nagy went on to international fame as a typographer and set designer. He printed everything in lower case, because he thought capital letters wasted time and effort. In England he designed futuristic architectural sets for the movie of H. G. Wells's The Shape of Things to Come...
Cassini: "The present head of the American Astor clan is Vincent, childless, twice-married, phlegmatic and serious-minded. He founded model farms and builds model tenements for the poor, and runs de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich."
Social-minded PBH has adopted a dubious procedure. Yesterday afternoon it sponsored a tea for Yardlings and budding 'Cliffe Dwellers--but only those whose last names began with A through G were invited. The others were advised not to despair, however, because the H through O contingent will be received...