Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Criminal Mind. In Camden, N.J., police were hunting the burglar who jumped from Miss Helen Larkin's window, then rushed back into the house and retrieved his shoes. In Louisville, police nabbed two men as they returned to the scene of the crime to recover their tools...
Last week, at the Vancouver convention of the Canadian Federation of Convent Alumnae, strait-laced Archbishop Duke spoke his mind on still another human frailty: bathing beauty contests. Said he: "They are unbecoming and could be the occasions of sin ... They are barred to Catholic women who realize in conscience this great danger ... It lowers the dignity and esteem due to women to parade them and measure them . . . like cattle...
Allen's heartening conclusion: "I am not worried. While television is making up its mind, radio marches on! It may be a treadmill-but RADIO MARCHES...
...faculty of Prague's Charles University, replied in pungent, accented English: "Even the enormous wealth and the atomic power of the American nation must not deceive us ... The Western nations have ceased to be the exclusive masters and architects of the world . . . What I have in mind is Western man's apparent fear, frustration and helplessness in dealing with the great issues of our times. Anxiety about the advancing social transformations under the leadership of the Soviet Union is depriving the average Western citizen of a real grasp of the situation . . . [Communism represents] much of the social impetus...
Setting her designer's mind to work, Elsie soon had a dress that made Edna look both slender and stylish. A clamor for copies convinced Elsie and Edna that they should go into business. They pooled $500, hired three seamstresses and rented a small shop in a strategic location-the Medical Arts Building, where most Dallas obstetricians have offices. Thus, ten years ago, began a business that has grown until it is now a U.S. merchandising sensation: Page Boy maternity clothes...