Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make their residence in the College. At the end of the current year no undergraduates will be left who remember the dark days before Dudley Hall flung wide its doors to receive men who do not live in the Harvard Yard and the Houses. Thus an idea and a hope a few years back has been metamorphosed into a reality, and a group that was long neglected has now a place where it can take proper position in the undergraduate community...
...this the third one over in the window rouses himself violently from his lethargy by drawing on his almost dead cigar and states, "It's not so much the fundamentals, but the don't seem to be getting the plays." No direct word of rebuke, of course but the idea gets around...
...this point the man who does things when "something ought to be done about it" walks in after a bracing workout in a steam cabinet, gets the idea, and immediately seats himself down to write a letter to the athletic director, one of those chatty epistles which want to know fundamentally, "What the hell?" and with the writer's glass (for some strange reason it's almost always '08) displayed prominently...
Monthly candidates may borrow this as an idea for a story...
...since 1923 has been a ruddy, white-crested lawyer of 47 named Daniel Bloomfield. A relative by marriage of both the Morgenthau and Filene families, Dan Bloomfield began his career as Lincoln Filene's associate in Boston's big Filene department store. In 1928 he conceived an idea which seemed unlikely to set the world afire: a Conference on Distribution to parallel the conference on national and international problems held annually by the Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass. But under two enthusiasts, Dan Bloomfield and President Patrick Augustin O'Connell, of Boston's Retail...