Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political and ecclesiastical rebel, but it has carried an English school tradition. In the late President Eliot it was almost a loyalty. With Mr. Lowell it may be an acute form of colonialism to which a part of New England is strangely and perversely addict. Hence, probably, the house idea at Cambridge which would cloister the young men in Boston suburb reproductions of Baliol, Magdalene, etc. There is an endowment available for one of them. A further projection of the idea is that the athletics of the university shall be principally contests between the houses, as at Oxford and Cambridge...
...plunging back of the present team. Just how this combination, experienced and tried as it is, is to be bettered without at least a game or so for a basis of judgement, is the problem which at present leads the experts to believe that Coach Horween has no immediate idea of changing his first team...
...this arduous but joyful experimentation, no one of us. I think, had any idea that what we were doing was only an ephemeral experiment. The act of faith in founding the school was being transformed into permanence. We knew that in reality the business world had summoned the school into being, and as we worked we were conscious of an increasingly favorable environment. The old training for business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without...
...like undertaking," said Mr. Austin, slim, alert, decisive. "It has sent out its engineers to make a survey of the latest and best methods of doing what the country wants done. "Following this research the job was to find an organization that could do the work. Evidently the American idea of doing big things in a big way appealed to the Soviet representatives. The job has come to an American concern. "However, it did not come overnight. We have been working more than eight months on this proposition." From bustling but incurably old-fashioned Nishni Novgorod flashed details...
...line of buildings, is expert at getting these assembled by local labor. Thus only Austin engineers will go to Austingrad and all the actual assembling and construction on the spot will be done by Russians. From the founding of the company in 1904 it has sloganed: "Undivided Responsibility"-the idea that every phase of constructing a factory, an airport or a city like Austingrad should be covered by a single contract, the company to be responsible for everything...