Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends of learning rejoiced in the widespread interest aroused by this Conference of Arts and Sciences. Here was conclusive evidence, if any were needed, that this country prizes the triumphs of the mind for their own sake, as well as for their utility...
...Crowther, in proposing an antidote for the centripetal force of specialization which he finds driving inward to dictatorship, believes that "philosophic journalism" offers a possible solution. By philosophic journalism he means a great deal more than informed writing; he demands, above all, breadth of understanding, fertility of mind, and coordination of walled-in ideas. In a word, he required more intellectual leaders capable of sweeping in jumbled, fragmentary bits of knowledge and transforming them into coherent and useful entities...
...claimed her and she would have married him if he had not renounced her when it seemed that Wings was going to be disqualified, leaving her dowerless. When she finds Kerry he is once more taking a bath, this time in an Irish stream. But now Marie does not mind. As a bonus with the first color picture produced in England, Producer Robert T. Kane has tossed in some songs by John McCormack, given famed Derby Jockey Steve Donoghue, six times winner of the Epsom Derby (1915-17-21-22-23-25), the leg-up on. Wings...
...chance lights upon George McWhirter Fotheringay (Roland Young). No one is more surprised than Mr. Fotheringay at what consequently happens when, in the course of a public house argument about metaphysics, he orders the chandelier to turn upside down. The chandelier does so. When Mr. Fotheringay lacks presence of mind to order it back into place, it falls on the floor and breaks. Thrown out of the saloon for conduct unbecoming to a gentleman, Mr. Fotheringay goes home to experiment with his new found knack. He conjures rabbits, kittens, gold watches and finally a bunch of grapes which he nibbles...
...keep going. Soon Finchatton began to lose his nerve. When he found a dog beaten to death by the side of the road, when his friend the vicar made a murderous attack on his own wife because he thought she was trying to poison him, Finchatton made up his mind to go away before his sanity cracked...