Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a few of these twelve could have had any idea that they were to be selected to take a leading part in the student government of the Freshmen, that they would eat with Mr. Marshall and Dean Leighton to talk over what would be best for their classmates...
Britain & the U. S. "My country and the countries which compose your mighty union are among the protagonists of the idea that peace rather than war is the normal state of human relations, within and among nations...
With this scheme sufficiently advanced for the London Committee to be all smiles and cordiality for the first time in months, only Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky darkling, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told Britain's newly-met House of Commons: 1) That he believes the "idea" that Italy intends to hold the Balearic Islands after the Spanish war is over to be "unfounded"; 2) That he accepts "as being given in good faith" Italian assurances that Italy has "no territorial or strategic or even economic designs on Spain." Pointing to Premier Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme...
...tried a double maneuver, appealing over the heads of the C. I. O. high command to the C. I. O. rank & file, with the idea of driving wedges between...
...minutes of the game Duke took the ball in midfield and rolled forward in eleven plays to its first touchdown. That march was a sample of what the final statistics were to show-Duke gained 200 yards by rushing to Georgia Tech's 79-but it gave no idea of the final score...