Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough to have begun to think about the future. The recent difficulties of the magazine seem to have made him thoughtful, for he said, "I've begun to think a lot lately about the future, and do you know what I am going to do?" This reporter had no idea...
...What is, then, the idea of a 'House' or a society 'of persons united by the common bond of neighborhood and intercourse and recognizing one another as associates, friends, and acquaintances'? Clearly the essential is a combination of unity and diversity...
...public ownership recalls to memory the Muscle Shoals controversy, Governor Smith's long and ardent battle for state control of various water power resources in New York, and the charges current last year that university professors were being privately paid on a large scale to spread propaganda against the idea of public ownership of utilities. In recent years these and other items relating to the same topic have frequently been featured as front page news in the newspapers. But more than an issue of the day the subject represents a phase in the development of the trend toward socialization...
This time it was about Tycoon Edward Stephen Harkness, whose recent gift of $13,000,000 has made possible at Harvard an adaptation of the Oxford "inner, college" idea (TIME, Jan. 7). Sneered the Lampoon: "Now that Harkness has shelled a sufficient number of berries we have got to put on our glad rags and make him an A. M. or a LL. D., the way we did Baker [Tycoon George Fisher Baker built Harvard's Business School in 1924, was given a kudo Ph. D.]. Becoming a Ph. D. is the same kind of business as getting yourself created...
...some spectators it seemed wise to let Leonardo da Vinci lie quietly in his undiscovered grave in Amboise by the sunny river Loire; to sell pictures for whatever they may bring regardless of recondite aspersions. The New York World editorialized: "We believe it would be a good idea if the court found out whether the talesmen know a Corot from a Wallace Nutting, and whether the Louvre is an art museum, a hotel or a disease. . . . There is grave danger that the verdict will be i cent to the plaintiff, 'with costs on the said Devinchey...