Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literary career ... At any rate, there seems to me very little ground for general contentment . . . and I must repeat ... I fear the contented man. I fear him, because there is no progress unless there is discontent . . . Without it today, I even believe, there can be no inner peace of mind...
...Leonardo's unsurpassed draftsmanship and 66 models of his scientific inventions, ranging from ten-barreled machine guns and rocket-shaped projectiles to automatic roasting spits and a slave-powered air-conditioning unit for the Duchess' bedroom. They showed that in the vast chiaroscuro of Leonardo's mind, scores of the horrors and wonders of 20th Century science had hatched and died...
When she was a little girl, Vermont-born Emma Shipman saw some of her ailing relatives restored to health with the help of Christian Science healing. It was not very long before young Emma Shipman had made up her mind to give up Congregationalism and join Christian Science's Mother Church in Boston...
...about a contemporary problem. Airplane radios of the day were bothered by high-tension interference from the engine's spark plugs, each of which acted like a miniature radio transmitter. Various attempts had been made to shush the plugs, but none had succeeded well. The professor focused his mind on the problem, dived into his basement workshop and soon had a solution. He scoffs at newspaper stories of how he worked 20 years on his invention. "Pooh," he says. "I didn't work more than 20 minutes...
...cities and towns, most of them under 10,000 population, the unpretentious façade of J. C. Penney Co. is as familiar as Main Street. The farmer who goes to town usually stops at Penney's, and so do the townsfolk who don't mind cash & carrying from Penney's to save dollars. This habit of year-in & year-out buying at Penney's has built the company, which has stores in every state, into the third biggest U.S. retail chain. Last year, only Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sold more goods...