Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mistress of a British lord is an idea titillating to thousands of British shopgirls. Just what that questionable position sometimes demands and how little it sometimes pays was brilliantly exposed in a London courtroom last week...
...Shift Explained? Once enthusiastically propagated, the idea of a universe whose outer nebulae were rushing away from Earth in all directions has lately lost favor among astronomers. Evidence for the recession of the nebulae is that, when their light is broken up into a spectrum, certain lines are shifted far to the right, or red end of the chromatic scale. Smaller shifts of this sort have been observed in the spectra of comparatively nearby stars known to be moving away from the solar system...
...interest of the public in candid photography received further impetus when the newspapers became interested in the idea. City editors, desirous of procuring sensational pictures, eagerly accepted the work of amateur candid photographers...
...current tendency of undergraduate organizations to break forth periodically on the air-waves is one to which the University would do well to give considerable attention, if not actual supervision, in order that the public may receive the maximum educational benefit and the best idea of Harvard. The potentialities of these broadcasts for good and evil alike are tremendous...
Author Lin. "one of the hardest working men in China," salutes the scamp, the vagabond, insists that "the art of culture is ... the art of loafing," and names the three great American vices as "efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success." His idea of the millennium in Manhattan includes a vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese...