Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the most contradictory phrase of the 20th Century is "civilized warfare." Also, the idea that it is all right to shoot people with a steel-jacketed but not a dumdum bullet, to run them through with bayonets but not choke them with gas, to destroy their vessels with a battleship but not a submarine-all this is quite confusing to some uncomplicated minds. Lately the democracies have been trying to "humanize"' the wars in Spain and China, chiefly by urging the cessation of bombing behind the lines...
...with the eager efforts of Nazi and Fascist shipping to corner trade in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Awaiting bids this week on the task of refurbishing the vessels with deck swimming pools, gay Lido decks, more spacious cabins and airconditioning, the Commission was even considering the ingratiating idea of changing the names of the ships to those of the three east coast countries they will visit, starting Sept...
...compatible with much new-style Alice in Wonderland economics. They appealed to the California Railroad Commission to force the ferries to raise their charge to 50?. While waiting the Commission's decision last week, the birthdaying bridge's officials considered reducing their own rates, quickly rejected the idea...
...Main idea of a cinema sales convention is to put the coming season's production program over with a bang. At one of this year's conventions the spirit of Hollywood enterprise was neatly summed up by firing tommy guns loaded with blanks. At other conventions, this year's plans for some 500 feature pictures, to cost some $150,000,000, were introduced with less noise, no less ballyhoo. By last week salesmen were visiting the nation's 16,558 exhibitors, talking up next season's shows. Under the block-booking blind-selling system...
...Lord's Supper. Bishop Oxnam explained that this broadcast, first of its kind, would enable Methodists to take Communion in small outlying churches whose pastors, not fully ordained, are not privileged to give it. Thus Bishop Oxnam's broadcast was a logical extension of a modern Protestant idea: that the minister's work may well be widened and simplified by the devices of science. In its ultimate extension, one sound film could become the agency of thousands of Lord's Suppers...