Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy launched yesterday morning a 21 1/2-pound satellite equipped to study weather patterns and cloud cover on the earth. Strong signals were received from the satellite at several tracking stations, but there is doubt in the mind of Vanguard chief scientist John P. Hagan that the satellite is still orbiting...
...most important need of universities today, he said, "is for scholar-teachers whose joy shall be in the free play of mind and who alone ... can be adequate for the extraordinarily complicated intellectual demands of our time...
Although he felt that American universities had progressed greatly in recent years, the President called on them to remembr that their essential function is "not to produce goods or perform services, but to keep a life of mind vigorous and functioning among...
...stated that "I would like to get in some visitors in the social sciences," and that, "I have a couple in mind." Kirkland will again "experiment" with small suppers for students and "selected people," Taylor said. "We might very well have something on music...
...This dull dumpling of a princess," says Author Kronenberger in his first-rate biography, "adored Sarah for her looks, her quick mind, her unfettered personality; this inveterate stickler for form would put aside for Sarah the one great advantage she possessed, her rank." After they were married (Anne to Prince George of Denmark, Sarah to dashing young Colonel John Churchill, future Duke of Marlborough*), Sarah, at. the Queen's suggestion, addressed her royal mistress as "Mrs. Morley," became herself "Mrs. Freeman." Their husbands, joining in this playacting, were cast as "Mr. Morley" and "Mr. Freeman...