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Word: thinker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black-Eyed Martha. Twenty years of work made Freud "a first-class neurologist, a hard worker, a close thinker." But he showed no signs of imaginative genius. This was partly because of his determination to discipline his fanciful mind, but largely because in 1882 he fell madly in love and felt he could not get married until he had built up a solid reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Dr. Freud | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...people remember Adolf Hitler as a thinker. Yet he was one-the kind that is all too frequently found in saloons or on park benches, spinning grandiose, hate-laden theories about the world, tossing off answers to all questions in a manner that the Germans call dumm-schlau (stupid-smart). Such men are usually ignored by others as annoying but unimportant cranks. By a tragedy of history, Adolf Hitler gained the power to put his rambling, dumm-schlaue theories into practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Portrait | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...century on the high seas made unreal characters more royal, in many ways, than flesh and blood can ever be. This general, however, is another good nor evil; he is an Old Testament Jehovah, a god-man who cannot break a code of justice. The general is not a thinker, though he must decide what fits the law; he is basically, and in spite of his final decision, one who must always take orders. Although he seems to become momentarily human in his final decision, this is an illusion; gods connote stop, and neither can the general resign...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The General | 4/25/1953 | See Source »

...ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market. Rancher Gay Copeland, president of the N.C.H.A. last year, sums up the requirements: "He has to be light on his feet, like a dancer. He has to be easy to turn, and a quick thinker. He has to know which way a calf intends to move, then outsmart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cutting Horse | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...going to think ahead, who is willing to express himself ahead of our ordinary thinking and who is willing to try to show the way not only in educational fields but in other fields as he develops and as his name becomes recognized as a thinker and a leader...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: President Conant Meets A Senate Committee | 2/11/1953 | See Source »

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