Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Heidelberger mind his unscientific emotions. Far from imputing dishonorable motives to Professors Rosebury and Kabat, TIME credited them with a full understanding of the "portentous moral issues involved," and with the performance of a patriotic service in publishing the facts about bacteriological warfare...
...after the Dean had done with the preliminaries, he turned to the token sheepskin before him with a mind focused on other and larger things. Or maybe the doctor was disturbed by the contagion possibilities inherent in such a crowded gathering...
...some ways a brilliant mind, with some appalling blind spots. The Colonel is well-read in history, at least in the names and dates of battles, but has learned from it only his single-track, narrow-gauge approach to world affairs. The people he despises most are amateur military strategists, and none more than that fellow amateur, Franklin Roosevelt...
...hold his interest if you change the subject on him," says one executive. "Got too much on his mind-logs in the rivers, paper at the mills, the new presses. . . ." He is also getting a little hard of hearing; the man who stays too long finds the boss drifting off into a Yogi-like silence. His men are careful not to smoke in his presence...
Belief in God. To the question, "Do you believe there is a God, or there isn't, or haven't you made up your mind?," approximately two-thirds of the men and four-fifths of the women classed themselves as believers, more or less. "One man in three and one woman in five expressed definite doubt. . . . Altogether, one in 20 . . . are uncompromising disbelievers in a deity, and these are mostly...