Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
...secretary, Stephen T. Early. Congress had newly created the job of Under Secretary of Defense to give Johnson a workhorse general manager. (World Bank President John J. McCloy was offered the job, but turned it down.) Whatever Steve Early might lack either as an administrator or as a military mind, he certainly made up in priceless savvy about the ways of Washington...
...candidate, however, both by age (20 weeks) and position (eventual heir to the British throne) was not likely to run for public office. Nevertheless, Prince Charles of Edinburgh was daily in the public mind. Last week, his parents, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, packed young Charles off by motorcar to spend Easter at their new home at Windlesham Moor, 30 miles from London, in Surrey. The trip did not disturb the clocklike daily routine which Charlie's mother had decreed. Each morning at 6, he awoke for a breakfast of milk and patent cereal. Three other meals and long...
Cedric Hardwicke lumped radio and television with the atomic bomb. Declared Sir Cedric: "It is better to be killed in an explosion than to have the human mind gradually deteriorating in the home...
...Euripides, Medea is seen at the last escaping to Athens with the bodies of her two children. And, probably since 431 B.C., moralists have been objecting to her apparent escape from punishment and retribution. I trust Mr. McClintic did not have this moral objection in mind when he altered the ending to have Medea merely standing over her children's corpses. The script has not been changed: she still talks of escaping, but the audience does...