Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years the Noble lectures have been addressed largely to the clergy and theological scholars. In announcing the new policy whereby this year's talks will be especially for the students, Dean Sperry said, "The seriousness of the times and a genuine concern for religion have led us to think that these addresses will be welcome at this time...
...other business experts on the latest developments in commerce and production, hear the philosophies and arguments of opposing sides in current business controversies. They discuss and debate among themselves, attempting to formulate their own opinions. They take time out from the mechanical pursuit of their daily business routines to think objectively on vital matters...
Tacoma, Wash, (population 106,817) has had more than its share of major kidnappings (George Weyerhaeuser in 1935, Charles Mattson in 1936), does not think highly of the way newspapers and radio cover this kind of news. After the Mattson boy was murdered the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce publicly censured reporters and editors for "gross mistakes that many people believe may have prevented the return of this child unharmed" (TIME, Feb. 8, 1937). Last week crime news was worrying Tacomans again, but this time they were afraid they weren't getting enough...
...tooth & nail, caused the revision of magazine articles, driven books off the shelves of public libraries. But the day after Case History opened, B. Palmer Lewis, of the Church's New York State Committee on Publication, commented: "This is just a very little play. ... I don't think I'll do anything about it." Possibly very unfavorable reviews had saved Scientist Lewis the trouble...
...sister, who protested against this affair, he wrote the most impassioned letters in the book, demanding that she receive his mistress and condemning artificial moral standards: "Do you think I have been insincere in what I have written all my life? Do you think that my contempt for law, society and conformity are not genuine? Well, I can tell you I am no faker. I shall always try to appear to conform, but I shall not do so to,-well, to avoid the disapproval of others...