Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impart confidentially that their respective team will take home the honors. Cornell is sure of it. Dartmouth is flaunting its hurdlers. Yale points to hurdlers Day and Shields, sprinters Burlingame and Kerr, and pole vaulter Bill Harding. Yesterday Harvard's assistant track coach, Bill Neufeld, said "I have an idea we're going to win this meet...
...corresponding alterations in the President's program." Historian Beard called for a foreign policy of "abstaining from the quarrels of Europe and Asia, avoiding all gratuitous advice and insults to foreign governments, and defending the continental home of the U. S. and adjacent waters," pointed out that "the idea of Germany, Italy or Japan sending a fleet of battleships conveying 500,000 soldiers across the seas in majestic array is simply fantastic. . . ." Gist of his advice to the Committee was to "probe to the very bottom" the commitments of foreign policy authorized by the President's armament program...
...Border collie. With neatness and dispatch the dogs split, drove, penned a small flock of bewildered sheep. Cracked New York's ex-Mayor James John Walker (on hand to follow Irish terriers): "This sheepherding may become very popular around town. It might be a particularly good idea for the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November...
Radio City Revels (RKO-Radio) is a fancy patch of cinematic needlework stretched over the hoop-la idea of a songwriter who works only in his sleep. Fanciest flight: frantic Song Thieves Jack Oakie and Milton Berle trying to cure Sleep-writer Bob Burns's insomnia by tossing a lamb back & forth across his bed. shortcutting by having him start counting at 1,000. Current & Choice...
...This restriction of liberal education was one of the first changes made by the Nazis in Germany," the Union warned. "It follows a principle characteristically approved by fascist governments." In conclusion, the statement declared that Conant's idea "would have been profoundly shocking to those Americans who founded and fought for democratic education in America...