Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With just eight days to get accustomed to his new charge, who was notorious for his bad temper and fondness for breaking from racing stride into a gallop. Driver Henry Thomas, one of the sturdiest and smartest in the game, thought he had McLin ready on Hambletonian Day. Seasoned horsemen, however, knowing that McLin had never finished in the money as a two-year-old and had not won a race this season, doubted whether even foxy, strong-fingered Henry Thomas could handle him. At the end of the first one-mile heat, when McLin, trotting in faultless gait, came...
Though he thus flinches from the hurly-burly of modern life, Philosopher Joad is no pantywaist philosopher. Three years ago, when he witnessed the first firewalk performed in England (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935); newshawks asked him, as a well-known student of psychic phenomena, what he thought of the feat. Scholar Joad, taking a leaf from the book of George Bernard Shaw, who charges $1 a word for answering questions, said he could make no observations unless he was paid five guineas...
...undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry." The note: "Hiya, egg. . . . What have you been doing lately? Do you still go on those long walks like we used to? 'Bye, you snow bat.* Can you read this? If I thought you could I would call you a lot of names. Hisses to you. MICKEY...
...years ago the U. S. public thought of bicycles, like bustles and the Single Tax,* as something that went out with the 1890s. In 1932 only 180,000 bicycles were sold, about one-fifth the annual sale before 1900. Since then, however, bicycling has had an astonishing revival. Last year U. S. citizens bought more bicycles (1,300,000) than ever before. Last week New York's efficient, hard-working Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who has spent over $500,000,000 building parks and boulevards, announced a plan to take cyclists off the streets. Throughout parks and along drives...
...fears and aspirations. (This thesis he first broached 25 years ago in Totem and Taboo, one of the six major works included in the Modern Library Giant.) Freud calls his prospective book one of his most important, expects of it no less far-reaching effects on contemporary religious thought than the invention of psychoanalysis had on contemporary culture generally...