Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks like a parade of pitchers for the baseball team this afternoon. The nine goes out to Riverside at 4 o'clock for a return game with Boston University, but Coach Samborski will have the Ivy League schedule well in mind when he names his starting hurler...
...charge of "P.B.," reprinted from L'Action Catholique in TIME, April 19, that the "costumes generally worn by most girl skaters are frankly indecent," reveals indecent exposure of mind. What decent mind would think of saying that a posture of girl skaters "brings to mind a posture that dogs often use?" . . . P.B. is really indicting the Creator for indecency when he charges that it is indecent to show an uncovered leg in skating or dancing...
...Under the hypnotic influence of the beauty salon and the fashion magazine, U.S. women had started wearing their hair short. Harper's Bazaar explained: "Manes and mops are being chopped . . . and shaped . . . into slicks and swirls. The wisps of the feathercut are out of mind. In every case, the look is small, the finish is polish...
...young flax and green wheat grow on the plain of Waterloo. In the midst of the battle monuments, which include a cast-iron British lion glowering toward the French frontier, a humble seller of ice-cream cones, Jean Boewet, last week spoke his mind...
Wrestling helps Wittenberg in his detective work ("The thing you've got to have in both is presence of mind"). The Police Department has cited him twice for bravery, once for rescuing two kids from a burning building, the other time for catching two armed bandits with his bare hands. His wife, an expert fencer, has passed her exams for policewoman...