Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambassador Dodd's letter to Senators Bulkley, Glass and others voiced his alarm about a U. S. billionaire fascist (still unidentified). TIME reported Senator Borah's description of it as "the figment of a disturbed mind...
...ever said, exactly. But questions beat fretfully on the mind of one citizen, Spinster Maria Smith, 74, a retired teacher and the only woman on Saugus' School Board. Last week Miss Smith could stand it no longer. At a School Board meeting she persuaded two of her four male colleagues to vote with her that Teacher Hallin's contract should not be renewed next year...
Wrote St. John's new Board Member Hutchins to Board Chairman Amos F. Hutchins (no kin): "I am convinced that the plans they have in mind will make St. John's an important centre of liberal education in the U. S." No such centre today, St. John's is a small (enrollment: 250), State-subsidized school struggling unimpressively in the shadow of the Naval Academy. Its long educational decline was climaxed under the presidency of one-time (1930-33) U. S. Prohibition Administrator Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, who resigned two months ago after a squabble with...
...Khan and tell him that Old Boots wanted to be friends. Her arrival pleased the Khan because it meant the regiment would follow through the pass to certain slaughter. When Old Boots ignored the volleys of the hillmen to stalk up alone for a confab, the Khan changed his mind about the slaughter. Wee Willie Winkie is a craftsman's picture which is also, surpassingly, an audience's picture. To able Associate Producer Gene Markey goes credit for seeing how the suggestions implicit in the Kipling fragment could be nursed into an epic; to able Director John Ford...
...sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over Harris Hill, he guided his ship directly into a thunderhead, rode along inside it for an hour during which he was lost to view. Coming out several miles away, he turned back to the hill, entered another thunderhead, rode it for 21 mi., landed...