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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young men which seemed a flat challenge to the economic legend embodied in Calvin Coolidge. Said Mr. Ford: "No successful boy ever saved any money. They spent it as fast as they got it for things to improve themselves." Mr. Ford obviously did not have Calvin Coolidge in mind while uttering this maxim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Allah is great Hui juxtaposition is greater" runs an old proverb, and it was with a similar thought in mind that the Cambridge police and fire chiefs cast glowering looks around the Gold Coast and the Lampoon Building, upon the occasion of a false alarum rung in, on the alarum box standing besides the Jester's tree at 11.20 0'clock last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLANCE AROUND NOW AND CHOOSE THE NEAREST EXIT | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

Elected. Dr. James Harvey Robinson (The Mind in the Making), of Manhattan; to be President of the American Historical Association. A campaign was announced to raise $1,000,000 for historical research, the money to be got under the direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...college dramatic clubs, might never be brought forth "Many who originally participate in college plays more for the fun of it than because of the recantation that they can act, later become well known actors," the playwright went on. "The few that enter college with a dramatic career in mind have ample opportunity to develop their talents in the under graduate productions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Author of Dramatic Club's Latest Offering Praises the Undergraduate Thespians for Producing Untried Plays | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...intelligence is only apparent," explained Mr. Wenslely; "it of course has no brain, and it can only do certain things under certain conditions worked out previously by a human mind. The machine was built at the Westinghouse Laboratories to answer a definite need, but, unfortunately the publicity department heard about it, and what started out as a serious invention has turned into a vaudeville act. Televox now has three brothers who are being shown in different parts of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

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