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Word: idea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the "Ask Me Another" craze is sweeping the country, books of Questionaires are coming out almost daily, the newspapers are running questions, and the fad has even invaded the CRIMSON, it is of interest to know that the idea is by no means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PROFESSOR FOILED ANCIENT ASKERS OF ANOTHER | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...place, granting an equal response from the members of the class, the return will be much larger in 25 years than under the insurance plan, where much money is bound to be dissipated in lapsed policies and in profit for the insurance company. At the same time the chief idea of the insurance plan is gained; that is, the spreading of the burden over the full period of years. Last and most important, the committee believes very strongly in the principle of purly voluntary giving, finding something repugnant in the idea of calling in outsiders to force Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FUND TO GATHER 1927 GIFT | 3/24/1927 | See Source »

Asked if he thought the Nationalists would achieve success, Professor Horn- beck replied: "The Nationalist idea will eventually, I think, prevail all over China. Whether the present drive of the Nationalist government, merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SHANGHAI ALIENS SAFE"--HORNBECK | 3/24/1927 | See Source »

...spoke of the Catholic conception of the Blessed Virgin, his admiration of the special love which millions bear to her, he shocked orthodox Protestants. Said he: "I cannot but believe that my Roman Catholic brethren have the right idea. With my Protestant background I would hesitate to kneel before a statue of the Virgin in public, but worse things than that have been done on this earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Maria | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...band of Jew bankers, lawyers, advertising agencies, fruit packers, produce buyers, professional office managers and bookkeeping experts is on the back of the American farmer. . . . Born in the fertile fortune-seeking brain of a young Jew on the Pacific Coast a little more than five years ago . . . the idea has turned millions away from the pockets of the men who till the soil, and into the hands of the Jews and their followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sapiro v. Ford | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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