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Word: idea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy, are unlimited. No need for Trinity graduates to depend on. Vanity Fair talk as an avenue for popularity. And surely they will be able to sit down for fifteen minutes with a newspaper without fear of neglecting the classics they know so well. The only disadvantage in the idea is that it will be so easy to spot a Trinity man in any gathering. The mere mention of "The Decline of the West" and there will be no further doubt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: READ 'EM AND WEEP | 4/24/1929 | See Source »

...until I read it in manuscript form. Neither Bruce Barton, nor any other professional writer, had anything to do with the preparation of the manuscript. Bruce Barton did know, through a personal letter from the President, that the first article had been written, but he had not the slightest idea of the contents of the article until I had received it and described it to him over the telephone. The story is the ex-President's own story in every manner, shape and form. It is amazing to me that anyone could dream that it was otherwise. No "ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...National Aeronautic Association. Associate Editor Weiss described TIME'S flying school* and suggested that some light plane manufacturers would gladly give planes to well-organized college units for the sake of the free publicity and advertising the gifts would engender. President Loening clapped his approval to the idea but begged off from applications for his big amphibians. For best college flying activities he has put up $5,000 worth of prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: College Flyers | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...wings of a large three-motored auxiliary plane. The auxiliary leaves the ground with its load, when good flying height is attained, the top ship takes off from the auxiliary, which returns to its field. Last week the U. S. gave Dr. Junkers letters patent for his idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Booster | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...know why people should get so excited about it. . . . Ever since . . . that story about the phoney Romney - if it is phoney - I have had to have 15 or 20 guards around my house. When people hear about you paying a lot of money for a picture they get the idea that your house is lined with gold and they do everything but climb into your bedroom windows. Honest, I wish this thing would die down. I'm sick of hearing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U.S. ART SHOCK | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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