Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast experience of affairs. Lothian's enthusiasm and Halifax's impelling warmth. But Franks is in his own right an interesting specimen of homo britannicus. As a friend summed him up recently: "Franks believes passionately in the Sermon on the Mount, but he does not think that, unaided by men of intelligence like himself, the Sermon can do it all alone...
...knack for administration was uncanny: he showed an instantaneous grasp of personnel problems, gave subordinates snappy decisions which constantly left them with an awed "why-didn't-I-think-of-that?" feeling. He handled his bosses with equal ease. The day he learned that peppery Lord Beaverbrook was taking over the Ministry, young Franks mourned to a friend that "that awful little man" would wreck the organization. Then he had a second thought, and added: "I think I'll look into the office over the weekend...
...years, China's Ta Rung Pao (The Impartial) cherished its role as an independent newspaper, liked to think of itself as the New York Times of China. But last November, Editor Wang Yun-sheng, correctly gauging the strength of the red tide, left the main office at Shanghai and turned up in Communist-held Peiping to confess his sins. In 20 years with Ta Rung Pao, admitted Wang, he had failed: "Although [I tried] to run the paper as an independent one, in reality it has betrayed the interests of the people . . . There is no neutrality for a journalist...
...biologist is not necessarily too grumbly about this--or at least I should not like to have you think that he is. He is perfectly able to accept, for a time being, a system of kinetc equations embracing the data of photosynthesis as picturing the known essence of the mechanism of this process. He also wants to learn the molecular inwardness of the matter, the kinetic mechanism with all its defects serving as a ladder toward specific experimental inquiry. He is not so crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when...
During the half-time, activity stops on the field but not in the cheering sections. Each rooter removes some colored cards tacked to his seat, and card stunts begin. Card stunts picture beautiful scenes and humorous scenes, spell out words--anything the ingenious minds of the rally committee can think...