Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SPIRIT OF ST. Louis (Picture Idea: plane shedding tears...
...Victor Schertzinger and Nicholas Soussanin. Best shots: the dance in the village hall, the toboggan slide, the boys who don't like birthday cake, Jannings wiping his tears on his dead wife's chemise, a nun in the village hospital, the moment on the stairs when the idea of getting even upsets reason for the burgomeister...
Over four decades ago the brain of Professor Burt Green Wilder of Cornell conceived the idea that much could be learned about the functioning of the human brain if a collection of brains were established for comparative study. He announced the institution of the collection and invited contributions, especially from men of intellect. Naturally he willed his own brain to the collection. In 1925 he died and his thinking apparatus was carefully preserved in alcohol...
...known this is the first time that such a match has ever been held. The idea is that of Moe, leader, of the Oregon team and Oregon state champion. Courses will be picked by each team which roughly correspond to each other in difficulty. The golfers will then shoot against par and the results will be exchanged by wire. Each team will play with four...
...attribute the difference between major and minor sports to the fact that "Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity, the idea arose that football was a nobler sport, and that its devotees were to be honored above the run of ordinary men." Is it not more probably true that the stiffer competition involved in major sports should of itself evoke a greater reward? After all a man who has one or two competitors for a position is less deserving of recognition than one who is successful in winning out over...