Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...zealous work of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce and the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, newspapers now give no more emphasis to air accidents than to motor or train accidents. And seldom do they mention the name of the plane and motor in the crash. The idea of this censorship is to avoid scaring prospective airplane owners and riders, to protect the public's air-consciousness from unnecessary jars...
...really rich and potent tycoon likes the idea of sitting on a "sub-committee," and so last week the three sub-committees of the second Dawes Committee-now sitting in Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.)-were rechristened "Informal Groups...
These articles embody a principle which it is believed is absolutely new in the field of vocational work. The one appearing this morning explains the general aspects of this idea, and the others will show its application in special fields. All of the articles will be printed under the special leading which is used this morning on page four...
...decision to lay out two holes for practicing approach shots was largely due to the activity of Phillips Finlay '31 in promoting the idea. Francis Ouimet is to aid in the enterprise, offering advice in planning the course as well as instructing candidates for the team during the early part of the spring...
...might occur with the inception of this experienced direction. Were it not that extra-curricular activities exist for other ends beside the mere accomplishment of office routine, the plan would have no apparent flaw. But the function and benefits of these undergraduate activities are so essentially divorced from the idea of formal instruction that any move to bring the two nearer together very much resembles an encroachment. Far more ultimate good is to be had from the self-teaching and individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long...