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Word: idea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...removed at one fell swoop all of our tutors. The friendly handclasp, the eyes that searched our own, were gone. Should we ever be able to talk together again? And we spoke of getting a word across the Infinite, as much as anyone can speak of such a nutty idea...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/21/1928 | See Source »

...Annapolis. It is not unassuming to picture natty mid-shipment pursuing the elusive golf pellet over the briny billows of the deep. No ardent enthusiast of the green has falled, at some moment or other, to meditate upon the possibility of a rolling sea suddenly solidified, but the very idea of battleships being equipped with golf courses, midshipmen adding knickerbockers to their accouterment, and the employment of Marines as caddies would have been considered an hallucination. However, the announcement that the United States Naval Academy has recently become the first college of importance in the country to make the modern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUTTING ON THE HIGH SEAS | 1/20/1928 | See Source »

...assemble again on February 6, at the Yacht Club, as the guests of Commander Ingraham of the United States Naval Academy. A definite decision will be made at this meeting as to whether the plan will be adopted for another year or entirely discontinued, it was ascertained today. The idea of having a neutral body appoint officials for the college football games was first instituted by the late F. W. Moore '93, former Graduate Treasurer of the H. A. A., and it is expected therefore that Harvard will try to have the plan adopted for another year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. RESERVES FINAL DECISION ON OKESON PLAN | 1/17/1928 | See Source »

...neither heaven nor money, but good things for good people and bad. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford had come by special train to Manhattan to attend the Ford Industrial Exhibition of which Edsel Ford said: "the New York show is built around this one idea-a visual demonstration of the operation of the Ford industries, from the raw materials to the finished product. We have stated frequently that we do not charge a profit on the materials from our iron mines, coal mines, gas plants, blast furnaces, rolling mills and other operations which enter into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Remarks | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...vapid as a cloud. When, to impress his faithless inamorata, Nelson Smock paddled his canoe into the surf beyond the inshore calm, she, riding by in a motorboat with a different gallant, remained gay and callous. " 'Nelson,' Claire called, 'you have'nt any idea how funny you look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Clarification | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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