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Word: thoughtful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Some Person of Wisdom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...quality of clarity above all others a public servant may have. Early in 1947, he delivered at the London School of Economics a series of lectures on "Central Planning and Control in War and Peace," in which he described the ideal cabinet minister as having "clarity, precision in thought . . . Only a synoptic mind can at once master the mass of necessary detail and yet keep a sharp lookout for the essential." Whitehall gossips, who have long noted Franks's ambition, believe that this passage indicates that Franks feels himself well qualified to be Prime Minister. Certainly, Oliver Franks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Some Person of Wisdom | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...thing as having roots in the past and growing up into the sky above and not looking down on the soil ... A handful of British dominated us for so long. Why? Because they represented a higher culture of the day . . . Are we going to go back in mind and thought to that type of culture which once brought us to slavery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Out of Babel | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Most of them took dismissal philosophically. One who rebelled was Dr. Florencio Loza, for eight years on the federal bench of La Plata. "I have never allowed any outside influence to interfere with justice in my court," he wrote in an open letter to the Minister of Justice. "I .thought it was my duty to devote to my job my best efforts. With this record I now leave my country's judiciary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Purge | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...nervous '203, who is suing Columbia Pictures for $1,000,000 for invading her right of privacy with the movie Gilda, said in defense of her specialty: "The shimmy was an original aboriginal dance. It was an African, a savage dance. I gave the public food for thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Old Gang | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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