Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest praise I can give this article is that I think it is entirely worthy of its subject. Schweitzer's life is a knockdown argument for Christian missions...
When she got some mail accusing her of being anti-Catholic, she wrote a little tartly: "Sometimes I think church organizations are foolish because they do things that lead people to believe they are not interested mainly in the spiritual side of the church but that they have a decided interest also in temporal affairs...
Harry Byrd was outwardly confident. "I think," said he, "that John Battle has a very substantial edge in the race." But if Harry Byrd was wrong, plenty of Virginians would have reason to worry. While rampaging in the U.S. Senate over the growing U.S. bureaucracy, Harry Byrd had managed in 25 years of rule to build up a Virginia bureaucracy of 73,174 state and local public employees-one for every 41 Virginians...
...Slichter, who commanded a hearing because his forecasts have been more accurate than those of most economists. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Slichter said businessmen like Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders were right in attacking the "psychology of fear" but, unlike them, Slichter did not think the economy's upturn would have to wait until people got back their confidence...
...critics, who have scoffed at the first nine Lanny books for their cardboard characterizations and their comic-strip simplifications of history, will hardly think better of No. 10. Such objections will continue to leave Upton Sinclair unmoved, since he has magnificently succeeded in what, after all, he set out to do: to write Upton Sinclair's version of history and get millions of people to read it. (Lanny, incidentally, his faith in the future undimmed, decides to devote himself henceforth to humanitarian journalism...