Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ability to duck the punches which he is constantly aiming at his own head to convince skeptics that he is really not a dictator at all. Last winter, Manuel Quezon's shadow boxing took the form of a visit to the U. S. to promote the idea of advancing the date of Philippine independence from 1946 to 1938 or 1939. Advantage of this move from the point of view of President Quezon was that it would bring independence before the end of his six-year term. Disadvantage was that, by disrupting island economy even more thoroughly than it will...
...have burdened it with a meaning which it never had and which, because of its derivation, it cannot properly possess. Any student of elementary Greek appreciates that this word signifies "born from light" or "arising as a result of light." It cannot be considered that it conveys the idea, as TIME'S editors wish, that a subject shows to good advantage in a photograph, or "takes a good picture...
Fourteen. U. S. citizens got their first comprehensive look at Mexican art in a traveling show sent by the American Federation of Arts seven years ago. Last week another comprehensive, more up-to-date traveling show on its first stop in Chicago gave Midwestern art followers an idea of where Mexican artists are going. New work by Orozco was not included because that powerful artist is busy on a mural in Guadalajara. Consensus among the discerning was that without him the flame of revolutionary art below the Rio Grande looked somewhat pale...
...University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest, taught in a night school where he got the idea for the twisted-tongue Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n which he wrote to pay the costs of his wife's illness in the winter...
...picture is Hollywood's idea of a painless way to present good music to the great American public, but it just doesn't pan out that way. Only those who are sufficiently fond of classical music to sit through some pretty poor sequences are advised to go. We submit the same advice to lovers of more popular music, for Bing Crosby's "Double or Nothing" is far from the ideal musical comedy...