Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...translator seems to have blundered somewhat. "Gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma" means "doesn't care at all for taking girls home," not "likes to take a girl home." At the most, taking "gabit gore nix drum" as an understatement, it might mean "doesn't mind," but "likes" would be "gleicht," derived from the German adjective "gleich," meaning equal, similar, like...
...best translation would be 'he doesn't mind taking a girl home from a picnic.' Literally translated it says 'he doesn't care out.' When a Pennsylvania Dutchman says he 'doesn't mind' he is expressing a rather high volume of enthusiasm. So, to translate the phrase into 'likes' for Yankee readers, TIME isn't going...
...well, too, that we bear in mind that in all the pioneer settlements democracy and not feudalism was the rule. The men had to take their turn standing guard at the stockade. . . . The women had to take their turn husking corn...
...allowed the conferees to persuade him to order his troops back from the front-line positions where they have squatted for two years. Army officers, bitterly resentful that Franco was throwing away their bloody-won victory, carried out their coup, then gave him first a chance to change his mind, and finally the boot...
...might intelligently serve the Spanish Leftists was by producing a film showing the Leftists' version of the origin and progress of the revolution. Finding that little of the source material available in the U. S. could adequately supply them with the dramatic and pictorial qualities they had in mind, Messrs. Dos Passos and MacLeish formed Contemporary Historians, Inc., decided to send their own experts to Spain. There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway, who followed him, spent several months on various fronts, two weeks in the village of Fuentidueña, 60 kilometers from Madrid. This week...