Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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April 30 "The Idea of God in Christian Theology...
...three years there won't be a sandbox on any course. Everyone will use wooden tees. One company gave away 3,000,000 of these pegs before the idea caught on," said a statistician last week...
...idea was good; the trust company was formed with the liveliest and most aggressive young men of New York's financial district on its board of directors. Mr. Davison's banking sagacity and charm had brought them together. He acted as their chairman; Edmund C. Converse of the Liberty National Bank, where ten years before Davison had himself got his first important Manhattan banking job, went to the Bankers Trust as president. Thomas W. Lament was secretary & treasurer...
...Thirty films are expected to be finished by summer. Two-thirds of these will show home life among obscure peoples of Africa, Asia, the South Sea Islands, etc. The rest will show continents emerging from oceans, being eroded by volcanoes, water falls, floods. Explorers, zoologists, geologists, anthropologists applauded the idea...
Skinner's Big Idea. Three loyal dotards had to be fired. Skinner (Bryant Washburn), young, newly elected member of the firm had to discharge them as his first duty. Instead he imported a stenographer, peppy, once a showgirl (Martha Sleeper). Stimulated, the dotards grew chipper, chirrupy. One bought a toupeé, all bought brassies. Skinner's big fresh idea results in the retention of dotards; in a picture feeble, mild as goose milk...