Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...comedy, "Luke and the Mermaid", and Anita Stewart in "The Combat. The class Hawaiian quartet, composed of R. D. Sears '19, H. H. Pell '19, J. A. Patterson '19, and B. A. Jenkins '19, will play and F. M. Trainer '19 will entertain on the piano, thus introducing the idea of class talent rather than vaudeville at smokers, a scheme which seems to be the most popular in the class. The usual beer, cider, ginger ale and cigarettes will be provided...
England will have several booths and the British Imperial Booth, embodying the idea of the empire will be one of the largest displays at the Bazaar. The other British booths are devoted to the different portions of the Empire...
...right and wrong, even with the fullest sacrifice, if necessary, that a mother could offer. As Christmas comes on, we fancy that many a fire will be lighted in many an American fireplace in honor of all these American boys who have died in France for a great idea, and in tender memory, too, of the mothers who have sent them. Boston Transcript...
...stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator in which you place the eggs and from which you extract the chicks...
Like many fundamental truths, the idea of "doing a little more than the job calls for" has become so disagreeably trite and familiar that it has lost all its meaning...