Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Member Kirkwood began to welsh when he complained that farming on Jura would mean giving up Parliament. Replied Lady Astor: "Nothing is further from my mind than to be responsible for depriving Parliament of your services...
Hazy idea floating through the Prime Ministerial mind seemed to be that the Publicity Department might succeed in convincing the German people there is no encirclement. Those who recalled how British propaganda sold the Germans Wood-row Wilson's 14 points and helped break down their resistance in 1918, guessed it might work. In fact, Lord Perth's principal assistant will be Sir Campbell Stuart, who was also chief aide to Lord Northcliffe in Britain's 1918 propagandizing...
...difficult to gather four years in one's mind and know it for its worth. Four years in a senior's mind seem now a day at the circus, and another day must pass before the infinite variety of sights and sounds can be related to the happenings to which they rightfully belong, and their meaning thus felt. To the seniors, the Class of '39, who march from Holworthy to the Sever Quadrangle this morning, four years are expressed only in the alternate silence and laughter flowing through the line. To-day they are singularly joyous at a climax...
When Eleanor Jewett came to the Tribune in 1918 her qualifications consisted of kinship (first cousin) with Owner Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick and a fresh, girlish point of view. To these gifts 20 years in harness have added a dogmatic turn of mind. Miss Jewett soothes the suburbs but sometimes puzzles the well-informed by her propensity toward ticketing all art in terms of "beauty" v. "modernism...
...every case of advanced colored T. B. there are five minimal (early) cases. But minimal cases are hard to detect, and most doctors pay them no mind. Without "mass X-raying of entire communities," said Dr. Peyton Fortine Anderson of Manhattan, it is impossible to nip T. B. in the bud. Modern equipment will make such detective work practicable...