Word: minding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ousted ex-Premier Ismet Inonu was slated to be elected last week president (speaker) of the Grand National Assembly, which was slated to adopt a new Turkish constitution. But events proved how little even the best informed Turks know the mind of their masterly Father. An obscure wheelhorse, Abdulhalik Renda was re-elected to the Assembly's presidency, and its members listened in vain for Kamal Ataturk to mention a new constitution...
...attention. When they drew up at the Church of St. John Lateran at the opposite side of the city, attendants lifted Pope Pius XI out of his car, into a sedan chair. The Holy Father had arrived to inspect and inaugurate one of the many new projects his busy mind continually hatches - an Ateneo Romano or Pontifical University, established in the vast church where, in 1929, Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri signed the Lateran treaties between Italy and the Church...
Baum was the outstanding defensive Ineman of the season at right guard for the Deacons, while right end Snydar's play brought to mind the work of Varsity Bob Green. The two backfield men, McClure and Wills, are both triple threats, and both were as adept at catching aerials as they were at throwing them...
...body is comfortable, and the mind, released from preoccupation with heat adjustment, is free to attend to other matters...
...wagons lumbering along behind. Its patriarchal but still lusty leader was one Hendrik van der Berg, and the main plot of the novel revolves around his harsh, hard-bitten figure: the conflict between his Messianic impulses and his hopeless infatuation for the luscious and youthful Sannie van Reenen. his mind's decay under the strain, his eventual downfall. His followers go down with him, for largely through the bedeviled old man's mismanagement, the emigrants-now at the end of their trek and busily founding a new settlement-are caught off guard by a Zulu attack, wiped...