Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it would be in the interests of accuracy if you ceased placing any references to the Reverend Father Coughlin, under the heading of Religion, except those pertaining to the administration of his parish...
Following closely in the footsteps of Sarton. Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, made no secret of his entire agreement with Bridgman. "I think it was about time somebody did what he did," was his comment...
...came out with a blast against liberal college educations for physicians. "The ritual of education is devouring our youth," he told members of the New York Neurological Society. Training in a liberal arts college only "imposes infantilism" on a prospective medical student. Such training does not teach students to think scientifically for "the collection of credits in courses of oddments" can be gained by "agglutination of the tail to a wooden bench...
...British Interplanetary Society is a group of 100-odd enthusiasts who think a voyage to the moon by rocket-ship could be undertaken right away, if the necessary funds (about $1,250,000) were forthcoming. U. S. rocketeers, a more conservative crowd than their fellow dreamers across the sea, had their hair raised last week when they read, in the latest B. I. S. Journal, an article entitled "The Payload on the Lunar Trip." This juicily detailed the equipment to be taken on the first lunar voyage, sounded as though the takeoff were scheduled for next week. Excerpts...
Utrillo partisans could not deny that he often uses postcards as departing points for paintings of Paris street scenes which he knows well. But they could think of other Utrillo inspirations besides postcards. Among the earliest were lumps of sugar soaked in absinthe which his mother tossed him when he was ten to shut him up. By the age of 15 he was drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London...