Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Magruder's case, although viewed by Secretary Wilbur as not so much a punitive measure as a shifting of responsibility, comes under the same category. The rominal discrepancies, arising from the differences between Mr. Wilbur's and the Admiral's points of view are, however, inessential; the chief idea is that General Mitchell, by keeping up the fight tried to arouse public interest in a matter of vital public concern, until the Government at length took some notice of the situation. If Admiral Magruder's present difficulties have a similar result he will be more than justified...
...downs. On occasions it has reached high peaks of success, on others it has plumbed the depths of undergraduate neglect. Its sponsors and members have gone sturdily forward in the face of the most discouraging sort of apathy, and in spite of repeated disappointments have kept the idea alive. Such is the early history of many a well conceived and worthy enterprise. The CRIMSON believes in the ideal of University thought expressed through the medium of debating. The expression of opinion, verbally and in public assembly is an old and dignified custom. It is an accomplishment requiring both courage...
George Washington started the idea of Washington Cathedral. He believed in God, but he was never known to pray in church, although he attended services at times. He never knelt when there were prayers, nor did he ever take communion...
...Adalin Macauley, National President of the American Legion Auxiliary, got the surprise of her life, so she said, when Queen Mary of Britain tugged at her sleeve in Buckingham Palace. She, it was assumed, had gone to the Palace with the idea of being-treated with condescension by an enameled-faced, crabbed, haughty...
...paragraphs-mere print-and spit out all those which seem to have any application to the questions, with a sensation of relief at being rid of them. And, of course, they forget that mite because they accumulated only words and phrases which were not organized into any definite ideas on the subject. When the final examination comes there are no notes to study, the sources are immensely too bulky, and resort is had to purchased notes which convey at best a sketchy idea of the material...