Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution of U.S.-Russian differences will have to precede any lasting settlement in Germany, both speakers on the German mind agreed last night at the first summer meeting...
Latin reaction was also mixed. Big countries were generally for it, though only Argentina, Venezuela and a few others had money enough to pay for what they would get. Chile's President Gabriel González Videla, against the idea last year, changed his mind and came out for the bill in Rio. The little countries were not so sure. Said a Costa Rican: "We have an army of about 100 men. If we get lots of arms and equipment, we'll find ourselves with a real army, a burden on the treasury, with a militarist outlook that...
Chicago's new superintendent of schools is a genial Rotarian with a glad hand and a quick mind, who has run Kansas City's schools for the past seven years. He also heads the American Association of School Administrators. A preacher at heart, Episcopalian Herold Hunt likes to fill in for vacationing ministers (he always draws a big crowd), often preaches to his teachers, too ("Don't be a grouch, avoid the 'little God' complex"). But Kansas City teachers remember him with affection: he got more money for his teachers than any man before...
...their classes at Packer Collegiate Institute. When Gulielma was too ill to do homework, she was told to maintain her standing by memorizing what went on in class. Father did not permit his womenfolk to wear corsets, because he held that the body, as well as the mind, should remain uncramped...
...little talk of poetry and prose). His confidence in his own impressions of art falls little short of the exaltation reached by Gertrude, but it is based on a lifetime of attention to art and artists and a healthy struggle to apply Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Clear your mind of cant." Whatever else is true of the U.S. expatriate company of which the Steins were members, they learned a good deal about the pleasures of looking at things, inciuding things on canvas...