Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VERIFY BY ANY LOS ANGELES NEWSPAPER, THE JURY WAS ANGRY AT BEING ORDERED ON A TECHNICALITY TO GIVE A VERDICT THAT CONFLICTED WITH ITS IDEA OF JUSTICE. . . . AFTER SIGNING THE VERDICT AS DIRECTED BY THE COURT THE FOREMAN OF THE JURY STATED: "l NEVER SIGNED ANYTHING SO UNWILLINGLY IN MY LIFE." ALL OF THE JURORS DECLARED THAT THEY FOUND THE PORTRAIT BEAUTIFUL...
...wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre's back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce, on cue, a sensation indefinable but eerie...
...Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, daughter of a Chicago contractor. When Mundelein moved into its skyscraper in 1930, it was seen that only two of its three elevator shafts would be needed for vertical traffic. This gave bespectacled Sister Mary, who was then in her late 205, an idea. Last week, in the idle elevator shaft, installed and ready to operate was a 120-foot Foucault pendulum, the longest in existence...
French Physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-68) installed the first Foucault pendulum in Paris's Pantheon in 1851. That one, since dismantled, was 200 feet long. Foucault's idea was to prove the rotation of Earth on its axis. A pendulum which is swinging freely in space keeps to the same line, whereas compass directions beneath the pendulum are constantly changing as the earth rotates. This apparent shift was duly performed by the pendulum of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. Such demonstrations always make a great impression on students of elementary physics...
Many young graduates have the old Yankee idea that they belong where the opportunity for material gain is greatest and easiest. Told to go forward, but not where, graduates of the past fifty years seemed to have evolved the tradition of money-grubbing by seeking positions which would pay the highest salaries merely because they did pay them. During the industrialization of the last century most millionaires made their wealth without social regard and only thought of society post facto--sometimes to ease their conscience. The desire for security--which involves comfort, leisure, marriage--is intelligent, but the ambition...