Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...send their sons to college with automobiles, said: "Rather than do that I would buy 30 cents' worth of powder and blow him up. It would be fairer to the boy." Much more he said, called Judge Ben Lindsey's trial marriage proposal (TIME, Jan. 24) "absurd idea," said of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson that she "crossed the entire country capitalizing her notoriety...
Vague clamorings are being heard of an art that insists it is the music of the age. It appears a freakish thing, unusual in sound as well as in mechanics. Once in a great while, a man will invent an instrument for the sake of expressing an idea better than it could be expressed in any other medium. Such an invention was the foot pedal that made Chopin's genius possible...
...Princeton" it said: "The reasoning of the Columbia professors was not good in either morals or economics. The signers were obviously groggy with emotionalism and Mr. Hibben indicates that there is the same fluttering of wings in the Princeton cloister." The professorial urge for debt revision "begins with the idea that the United States was a sluggard in its own War, that it was mean in remaining out of the League of Nations, selfish in kicking itself out of the World Court and can be made respectable only by paying cash for the good opinion of the world, a boss...
...opponent--"The very idea...
...from the Christmas recess to the Mid-year examinations and of omitting it entirely in many courses for nearly the last month before the final exams. This advanced step at Harvard will be tried out at first only by those departments and divisions whose instructors are favorable to the idea. And it will not be applied to the Freshman Class. During these interims from daily attendance upon the old-time lectures and recitations, the Harvard plan is to substitute outside reading, apparently of a character that will make the old daily work seem an Elysium of ease by comparison...