Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between the circular foyer and the straight outer wall of the Old House Office Building. ¶ More than half (47) of the House's big freshman class trooped into the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine's Democrat Frank Coffin and New Jersey's Republican Peter Frelinghuysen. In the first class, frosh heard New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston tell them how to make news. Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Democrat, both lately risen from...
...stage by calling a conference of independent states to proclaim the new "African personality" (TIME, April 28). This time the delegates were not government officials to be whisked about in air-conditioned limousines, but representatives of trade unions, political parties, agricultural and youth groups. The whole idea was the brainchild of Nkrumah's "adviser on African affairs," George Padmore, a 55-year-old, Trinidad-born and U.S.-educated (Howard and Fisk) Negro who in his far travels has frequently fellow-traveled. "People of Africa, unite!" said his manifesto. "You have nothing to lose but your chains...
...brainchild of the University of Chicage's Dr. Marcel Schein and financed by the National Science Foundation, the balloon rig is designed to catch cosmic ray particles while they are still streaking in from distant space at interstellar speed, unhampered by dense air. Even those that are single protons can carry far more energy than the most powerful particles generated in earthbound laboratories. Striking into Dr. Schein's plates, they will leave traces of their passing in the form of lacy tracks that physicists can decipher to provide new clues to some of the most baffling mysteries...
...playwrights did not create the character of Dulcy. Bearing a name taken from Don Quixote, Dulcy was the brainchild of the columnist F.P.A. (Franklin P. Adams) and first came to life on the editorial pages of the New York Tribune. The dramatists then simply took Dulcy and fashioned a play around...
...last week. Colonel De Long's brainchild had grown into $84 million worth of docks, oil rigs and seaborne platforms around the world. Consolidated Edison built one into Manhattan's East River to receive 750 tons of coal per hour for generating electricity. Now De Long is at werk with five other companies on a $21 million contract to lay a five-mile-long sewer outfall into the Pacific off Los Angeles. And the success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts...