Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explanation of why scientists remarry more quickly than others is obvious (TIME, May 9). Scientists are the most helpless of men. Twenty-five years lived in the faculty end of a university town leave no doubts in my mind. So-when his wife is gone-by death or desire-the scientist gets him a new one-or he can't work...
...sure to pass. True or false, the report and the fact that it was generally credited were in themselves indications that the President was functioning in top form. Improved by: 1) his eight-day fishing trip, and 2) his confidence that Congress was again in a tractable frame of mind, he breezed through a week including everything from Hell to helium with complete finesse, good humor and enthusiasm...
...Washington last week was whether to let a pinheaded (microcephalic) little boy grow up to be an idiot or to take a chance of making him normal by the drastic operation of splitting and stretching his skull. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Delehanty Vincent Stuart Jr. found that Alden Vorrath's mind & brain were normal for his two-and-a-half years. However, occasional convulsions seemed to indicate that the skull had hardened abnormally and was cramping the child's growing brain...
...whose creature it is, that shorthand name means a great deal more. As Donald Douglas waits with the rest of the crowd to see this embodiment of his 46-year career take off for its crucial test, he may well be turning over in his mind some of the things that name does mean. Blueprinted in his mind are such facts and specifications as these...
...setting down stern-first into the water now, easily, smoothly, gently, like a thing alive and yet afraid of violent exertion. The Vagabond rose and walked shoreward, his heart, full of joy. The days of winter were over, his duties done for a spell, his heart and his mind and his senses all keen to go down...