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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the perspiring Ambassador, before opening discussions on the Tientsin issue: "Mr. Arita, would you mind if I take off my coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Concession on Concession | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Perspiring Governor Earl Long, with the January primary election on his mind, was certain they could think of plenty. And this week began on a weird note: it appeared certain that valuable oil deposits had been struck on the newly seeded campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Rats In the Pantry | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...year-old Gene Mako of Los Angeles, who has played doubles (with Don Budge) on three Davis Cup teams and will probably be selected for the doubles again this year (maybe with Parker) if he can keep his mind off swing bands and the drums he loves to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hot Shots | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...into a natural world, but into one that has been distorted by civilization; that when the secret of the child's soul is discovered the world's problems will be solved and we will have a race of self-confident, unrepressed men. Says she: "In the mind of the child we may perhaps find the key to progress, and, who knows, the beginning of a new civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Childhood Secrets | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Laundress Mercer, who was elated over the prospect of becoming a Princess and did not mind telling people about it, was dismayed over this turn of events. In letters from Paris, where she arrived after five days of seasickness. Miss Mercer first wrote Harlem friends that life was a song. "The Prince has given me everything that any woman can ask for," she said. "He has a large ten-room apartment, a maid and a Personal Secretary. The Maid does everything for me. My bath, bed and Clothes, it is really too good to last, but I still think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Sad Tale | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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