Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having Mr. Mussolini cast himself in the role of "mediator," and how reminiscent it is of the old story about the three Scotchmen in church: when they were confronted with the collection plate only a few pews away and getting closer, one of them, with great presence of mind, fainted, and the other two carried...
...parkways. Due to his efforts, Greater New York, long backward, has probably the biggest, most elaborate recreation facilities of any U. S. city, and many of them are self-supported by moderate fees for bathing, parking, charcoal at the fireplaces provided for picnickers.* Mr. Moses has long had in mind making a public promised land of Long Island's whole south shore. Owners and renters opposed him, preferring their beaches to remain wildly beautiful, to keep city hordes from encroaching further on country privacy. Now, with their summer homes smashed to flinders, with even their beach, real estate...
...treaty under which his navy is restricted to 35% of Mother England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended, and will be for years, primarily by sea power. Japan, had Britain & France gone to war with Germany fortnight ago, would have been able to seize Hong Kong at the end of the British...
...prime obstacle in general education," he says, "is a feeling of helplessness before the unintelligible. Every problem is new to the mind which first meets it and it is baffling until he can recognize in it something which he has met and dealt with already. The all important difference between the mind which can clear itself by thought and the mind which remains bewildered and can proceed only by burying the difficulty in a formula-retained, at best, by mere rote memory-is in this power to recognize the new problem as, in part, an old conquest." Intelligence...
...Gabrilowitsch than it does about Gabrilowitsch the musician. An ardent Christian Scientist (although her father was noted for his early attacks on Christian Science), Clara Gabrilowitsch interprets the events of her husband's life piously, describes how she several times brought him through crises of body and mind by the power of faith...