Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Balaban is an amiable fellow whose drug store in Camden, N. J. is a hangout for moppets of the nearby Yorkship Elementary School. Month ago he had an idea for currying the favor and patronage of their parents. To Yorkship School's 250 pupils he announced that each youngster who received an A in deportment on his monthly report card would get one 15-cent ice cream soda on the house. Last week Yorkship's teachers passed out the fateful report cards. Presently, in breathless twos and threes, the first arrivals raced up to Charles Balaban...
...idea of electronic magnification has been a live subject in physics for a decade. Foundations of the technique were laid down in Germany in 1926-27. Other work has been done in Belgium and in the U. S. by Dr. Clinton Joseph Davisson of Bell Telephone Laboratories, who won a Nobel Prize in physics last year for experimentally demonstrating the wave nature of electrons. Some years ago, Astronomer Francois Charles Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal...
...sentimentality in this play is effective, and is likely to appeal to most of those who are not still in the throes of anti-Victorian reaction. The metaphysics in it, however, will not stand much inspection. The idea seems to be that if you had your life to live over and took the wrong course in an effort to be different from what you had been, you could see how wrong the wrong course was, and then go back to your real life and discern the merits of the right course, which you took in the first place...
...Suggested, unofficially, a trust company to "take over the functions of .banking, clearing of securities and the custodial duties of all members of the [New York] Exchange." Including this idea in his speech to the Association of Stock Exchange Firms at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. thus revived a proposal made in 1932 for reasons of economy by members of the Exchange itself...
...good idea, but a slight story, The Thought-Reading Machine combines Wellsian fantasy and well-buttered Gallic irony, makes a pleasantly mild addition to the literature of Let-Your-Mind-Alone...