Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload, "zip" away again for another load. "J.T.D." gave humanity a big lift when he brought the idea of canned soup to a reality, and both he, and the farmers are reaping the golden harvest as a result. FREDERICK T. ROBERTS Philadelphia...
Senator Borah was moved to exclamation: ''The idea, that they sent that man over as an observer and not as a propagandist! Are they living in an intellectual cave...
...Issue. Australians have their own conception of what should be the Govern- ment's role in an industrial dispute. Most Englishmen, like most U. S. citizens, shy away from the idea that the State should fix wages. But that idea has been the very cornerstone of Australia's labor policy. Moreover such Best Minds in the Dominion as the late and monumentally famed High Court Justice Higgins have consistently held that it is the duty of the State to apply compulsory arbitration. In trying to enforce these concepts a major issue has arisen: Shall the power of enforcement...
...Prince Louis laughed at the idea of a Monagasque revolution; not so Princess Charlotte. She rushed to Monte Carlo fortnight ago, listened long and patiently to the Monagasques' complaints. On to Marseilles went she to argue the justice of their claims with her father. At length after a long and exhausting family scene, he relented, wrote a favorable reply to his subjects' demands. With Prince Louis' letter in her handbag, adopted daughter Charlotte hurried back to Monaco...
...idea lacks only seven centuries, an aristocracy, royalty, an established church, royal characters, religious persecutions, a list of martyrs, and a national temperament for the cloister in education, pedigreed restriction in competition, a desire to wear a gown as a muffler around the neck, and a determination to get rid of the cheer leaders without killing them...