Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said the Times (without regard for Canada's sense of independent nationhood), could not become Prime Minister until the King, through the Governor General, Viscount Alexander, had approved. Said the Times: ". . . It is not likely that Lord Alexander will look beyond him." Cracked Peterborough's Examiner: "We think it is so unlikely as to be out of the question ... In suggesting such a thing the Times is sadly behind the times...
Family Affairs In Paris, Garry Davis, 26, solemn-minded son of bouncy Bandleader Meyer, had had time to think things over. It had been three months since he renounced his U.S. citizenship to underline his enthusiasm for world government (TIME, June 7). After a talk with his sister last week he explained why he might come back to the U.S. (the State Department will probably not be too tough about it): "It is not my purpose to create doubt and confusion...
...want to get into it? Last week Indiana University professors took a survey of 1,615 students, and soon found reasons for the lack of interest. Principal objections: 1) low pay; 2) cramped style-students wanted to be able to smoke, drink, date, dance, play cards, speak, vote, and think as they pleased, with or without the approval of a school board...
...buses, neighboring towns were waiting with ice cream and coffee, restaurants gave away box lunches, the Chamber of Commerce distributed apples. Miss Howe had also arranged for conferences between the new teachers and their principals, shown them around their classrooms. Said Teacher Kenneth Means: "Portland's wonderful. I think we'll stick for quite a while...
...bookworm himself, who was happiest poking about his own stacks, Jacobs didn't think New Orleans read enough. In 1946, he found, only about 43,000 citizens in a city of 600,000 held library cards. He felt ashamed every time he was reminded that Louisiana had the highest illiteracy rate...