Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sister and family friend had been missing for a month by the time Gina Sund read her poem in front of the thousand or so people who gathered in Modesto, Calif., March 14 to pray for the trio's safe return. "Deep in my heart I know something my mind does not want to learn," said Gina, 13, of Eureka, Calif. "I try to stay strong because I know that's what you'd want your baby to be, but, Mommy, I don't want you to leave...
Among the most interesting debates we had, especially with our outside experts, were those concerning the relative influence of thinkers vs. tinkerers--those who work mainly inside their own mind vs. those who turn their mind to practical things. In some centuries the tinkerers are more influential. The 15th, for example, was important for Gutenberg building his printing press and Columbus setting sail; the 19th for Fulton and his steamboat, Morse and his code, Bell and his telephone, Edison and his light bulb. But in other centuries the pure thinkers were more influential. The 17th, for example, boasted Newton, Galileo...
...That negative symbolism makes this in my mind so that we cannot bring ROTC back to campus at this time," he said...
...writing 10-screen long plan files, filled with every obscure reference, movie line and aphorism they've collected over the past year. Such hodgepodge plan files are universally condemned by the critics. If you're about to put down 40 or so witty saying please keep the following maxim mind: Unless you're Voltaire, I really don't care...
Occasionally, one comes across a plan file that was clearly written with a specific person in mind. It's like opening a letter that was misdelivered to your house--you know you really shouldn't be reading it, but it's just too absorbing to put down. When the intended audience is a tight group of friends, the plan file is characterized by cryptic in-jokes, humorous anecdotes and such. In other cases, the author knows he or she is being stalked by a particular person (usually some jilted romantic flame), and tailors the text accordingly. These plan files...