Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently returned to America after many months of study in Europe, Mr. Calverton claims that economic factors are responsible for the mind being what...
Cutting rules are another evil attacked by the Dartmouth. The existing cut system is said to "take the student's mind off his purpose in coming to college, and relegates intellectual responsibility to the dean's office...
...Miami, Bill Green desperately tried to make up his mind whether to rush to Washington to make a personal defense. If the miners kick him out, he will be left with an honorary card given him as a one-finger piano virtuoso by the Chicago Musicians Union. That is not enough to hold down the presidency of the A. F. of L., and he will have to join the Progressive Miners of America, which is flat on its back with 36 members sentenced to jail and a $117,000 fine hanging over its head (TIME...
Broken-spirited, Schaper made a precarious living selling washing machines and the like, finally in 1925, when War hysteria had subsided, went to University of Oklahoma as professor of finance. But the incident rankled in the mind of Pierce Butler's young law clerk, Elmer Benson, as he marched up the political ladder. It still rankled when, 20 years later, the law clerk had become the Farmer-Labor Governor of Minnesota. Last week came the day he had been waiting...
...Cavalcade printed and credited Sir George with a letter he had not written. In court, Sir George, an 82-year-old, devout Church of Englander, said Cavalcade's botchery had caused him great pain, for his friends began suspecting that, at his great age, he had lost his mind...