Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overnight last week, all this evidence as to the mind, character, instincts and aspirations of Richard H. Crowe lost its validity, and he became a stranger to all who knew him best. The National City discovered that $883,660-the largest sum ever stolen from a Manhattan bank-was missing from a vault at the branch bank...
...this told little about the stranger the police were seeking. His wife was sure that he was out of his mind, argued that he had taken bonds which would be impossible to sell. But criminals before Crowe, knowing what they were about, had hidden such securities, had used them as a lever for bargaining after they were caught...
...first half of the soth Century, fanned by the crimson wings of war, the conquest of the air affected profoundly human affairs. It made the globe seem much bigger to the mind and much smaller to the body ... In the 19th Century, Jules Verne wrote Around, the World In 80 Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get round it in four; but you do not see much of it on your way. The whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily...
...essential that the European governments, regardless of how much or how little they control their respective national economies, have clearly in mind what they are trying to accomplish, and shape all their policies to the ends in view. This means planning. But it does not require any government to increase or decrease already existing controls over its own citizens. However, we believe that in the end this kind of planning will result in fewer rather than more controls, because it contributes to prosperity, and prosperity discourages regimentation, while depression invites...
Graves burst open. The unquiet dead, in frenzied legions, issued-screaming, backward through time toward life. And the living on Battle Hill became stricken with strange conditions of mind and body. "What is happening to us!" men cried. And one wiser than the rest replied: "One of the vials of the Apocalypse...