Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refutation of the idea that college bred people are the only ones who build blood of leadership caliber the figures are reassuring. There was great wailing in the halls of sociology not long ago when it was discovered that Harvard and Yale and Radcliffe and Wellesley were only doing their duty by posterity to the tune of a fractional offspring. The as gumption was made that the best blood of the country, meaning the figures who would be the leaders of a generation hence, would come almost exclusively from college ranks...
...Idea: A free school for private cooks...
...Idea: A "posture chair." The Motive: To minimize fatigue for office workers...
...Idea: Typewriters in colors...
...latest of the long list of nations that have resented the new idea in Schrecklichkeit is Turkey. The progress of the Turkish Communist Party, financed by Russian funds, is claimed by the Soviet Foreign Minister Tchitcherin to be more remarkable than that of Russia itself. The Soviet hand has shown itself in the big commercial centers of South America, and France has one of the largest proportions of Communist-minded people in the world. Germany has a similar problem and China has already seen her coolies read and run--amuck. The newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst are running...