Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terming President Conant's idea of limiting the number of college graduates "a ploughing under the human brains," the Cambridge Union of University Teachers yesterday voted to send the President a statement expressing "strong dissent" with his annual report...
...This restricting of liberal education was one of the first changes made by the Nazis in Germany," the Union warns. "It follows a principle characteristically approved by fascist governments." In conclusion, the statement declares that President Conant's idea "would have been profoundly shocking to those Americans who founded and fought for democratic education in America...
...thought of digging up a genius now and then. The children do just whatever they wish in three hour periods each afternoon and on Saturday mornings. Each one is given a large paint brush and a biscuit tin full of colors and told to go ahead and paint. The idea is simply to give the children a chance to express themselves creatively in any way they want...
...generation Englishmen have played with the idea of mounting one airplane on the back of another on the theory that if they could be separated in midair it would "solve the fundamental problem of launching long-range aeroplanes with a full load . . . eliminate the take-off altogether." In 1916, an air force lieutenant named Day crudely accomplished this by lifting a Bullet scout plane from the wing of a Porte flying boat. Since then blue-eyed, middle-aged Major Robert Hobart Mayo, Cambridge graduate, airplane designer, and technical adviser to Imperial Airways, has worked on the idea. Backed by Imperial...
...whole matter was just a little baffling to Miss Harriet Harrison, head of the Wellesley contingent. As regards the advertising contract, she said she thought "that sounds like a very good idea...