Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress. The experts at Paris were understood to have agreed, last week, that $100,000,000 will represent the working capital of the proposed Bank of International Settlement. If and when established the Bank will act as a corporate trustee for the stupendous volume of German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative...
...possibility of moving the present Freshman library and other houses on Dunster Street, including the quarters of the naval science department, to the site of these old apartment houses, has been considered as one of the new House units is to be erected on Dunster Street. The idea has been rejected, however, as impractical because of the high cost of such an undertaking and it has been decided to go ahead with the original plan of wrecking these houses as well...
...cure for the cause of crime. Despite the unfortunate angles of many of his cases and the adverse public opinion regarding them, it would seem that some such treatment is necessary to get at the root of the trouble. In seeking for the practical details to work out this idea the Institute offers excellent hope for some plan for improvement of present conditions...
...competitive prize in the field of literature, or in any one department of learning, the idea is wholly acceptable, but as a contest to ascertain the relative amounts of culture in one university and another, it is meaningless. It is to be hoped that the inactivity forced on the wits this season will not seriously impair their cerebral accomplishments so that we may look forward to another illuminating and amusing showdown in the future. Cornell...
...that its outlines may be reduced, restricted, curbed. Many an "outsize" woman has come away from Lane Bryant's with the comfortable feeling that 20 superfluous pounds have been deftly hidden in the subtle folds of the Bryant draperies. And, though the business was begun largely with the idea of catering to the naturally stout woman (TIME, June 4), the unmodish evidences of approaching motherhood supplied additional market with which the Bryant stores are now most prominently associated. They have, indeed, made a further extension and now do a brisk trade in layettes...