Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have missed one so colorful as that applied by Washington newshawks to Congressman Edward Eugene Cox of Georgia. For his friendship for peanuts, which TIME did mention, Congressman Cox is dubbed "Goober." There's very little pretense about "Goober." He's sincere and frequently speaks his mind. That's why he's popular with Washington correspondents. His suite in the House Building retains much of the flavor of the small town lawyer's office. Pants which are obviously in the midst of being carried personally to the presser drape the backs of chairs. Country...
TIME herewith accepts Anthropologist White's correction. Henceforth when two things or people bear a close resemblance, TIME will bear in mind the corrected phrase spit-&-image...
Ruminating on the boredom of old age, an old man in Elgin, Ill. recently came to the conclusion that many an octogenarian would be better off if he had something to occupy his mind. "Medicine can do little," he declared. "The mind becomes ill while the body remains healthy." Charles Edward Sharp should know what he is talking about. Now 76, he has been one of Elgin's leading physicians for nearly half a century, still has a large & lucrative practice, in addition runs a philanthropic six-cottage sanatorium whose patients are required to pay practically no fees...
Smiling like the secretive Cheshire cat, the tall, dark and handsome medical director of the American Birth Control League, Dr. Eric M. Matsner, arrived in Manhattan from London last week. In his mind was a new method of rendering women infertile for several weeks at a time. In a box which he carried were 18 South African clawed toads...
...drug which Dr. Matsner had in mind has no such effects, said he last week. More than that he could not explain. Reasons: English experimenters'" working with the substance have proved its efficacy on apes, whose reproductive mechanism functions exactly like women's. They are now testing it on humans, want to avoid public discussion until its usefulness is assured...