Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must not be allowed to accumulate for the convenience of Special Delivery carriers. They must be delivered promptly and as soon as received, even if the carriers do have to retrace their steps. If you are not getting good results on your Special Deliveries, it would be a good idea to change the man who supervises it and put in somebody that can get results. If the boys are not faithful and prompt, change them. If you are in a dilemma and cannot get anybody to deliver your Specials, take a substitute or a regular or anybody. Just make...
...street car conductor, one J. Ray Akers, was one of Juror Kidwell's audience. Conductor Akers had an idea that autos are not what jurors usually "get out of" criminal trials Conductor Akers timidly telephoned the local Hearst paper (the Washington Herald). Reporter Donald T. King went and heard Juror Kidwell hold forth at the soft-drink stand with conductor Akers for interlocutor. reporter king then told the us attorneys office what he had heard. that office forthwith took certain covert steps...
...item in this department is "news" to everyone. For anything to become definitely a fashion requires time and the scrutiny of not-a-few human beings. The items that follow are presented with the idea that they are news to a large majority of TIME-subscribers. And the TIME-subscriber who detects a genuine new "fashion" (as distinct from a "freak") and reports it to this department, will be rewarded with knowledge that he has performed a petty public service...
...Idea: Colored Utensils...
Before the scholastic wanderer first saw the light, few in Cambridge aside from those in University Hall had any idea of the scope and compass of the University; which, as has been said before of the extra-curricular activities, has a whip for every man's hobby. There are few who have not at least one such hobby-even if it be nothing more than a small spark struck by some chance reading; there are fewer still who cannot find among the courses given here some encouragement in the pursuit. To aid in the pursuit has been...