Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liability a zealous New Deal enthusiasm that led him last session to break with his southern colleagues over the wages-&-hours legislation. To voters Tom Heflin roared, "Send me to the Senate and I'll see that they don't pass the anti-lynching bill." But the idea of sending Tom Heflin back to the Senate for any reason whatever, according to nearly complete returns, appealed to only 48,000 Alabamians, as against 88.000 willing to try Lister Hill...
...Jauncey cudgeled his brain for some way to verify experimentally the variable mass of electrons. On December 18 he hit on the idea of passing the electrons from Radium E through a velocity selector, then into a magnetic field. If the particles, selected for uniform velocity, were also of uniform mass, they should be uniformly curved by the field and would strike a photographic film in the same place. By that time the physics department at Washington University was so excited that Jauncey was offered the run of the laboratory and all the help he wanted. He stayed...
...idea cherished by many neurologists was that nerve damage in alcoholics was caused by the alcohol itself. Dr. Jolliffe, an international authority on the physiology and pathology of heavy tippling, doubted this. Polyneuritis seemed to him more like a deficiency disease, such as the Oriental malady called beriberi which is also caused by lack of Vitamin B. Because alcohol is a food of high caloric content, it seemed to the scientist that many topers simply did not eat enough food to get enough of the vitamin. In every case where the vitamin intake was sufficient there was no polyneuritis...
Governor Herbert H. Lehman the idea of stamping along the bottom of all 1938 automobile license plates the phrase NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR 1939. Other States had done the same sort of thing. VACATIONLAND was once stamped on Maine's plates. South Carolina motorists advertised THE IODINE PRODUCTS STATE. Californians carried the talisman THE GOLDEN STATE. In the New York Legislature the necessary bill was unanimously passed and "World's Fair'' plates were issued. But for a fortnight, fastidious New York car-owners, bolting on new plates, have wondered. That they should be asked...
...have been in journalistic work for at least three years. It is hoped that a considerable number of able men of experience from all over the country will be applicants. The holder of such a fellowship would, of course, be invited to Cambridge only if he had a clear idea of the line of study he wished to pursue. Thus, a man interested in becoming an expert writer on finance, for example, might choose a year's work in economics; another with the prospect of a career as a foreign correspondent might wish to study history; or an editorial writer...