Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring football reached advanced advanced stages this week with three scrimmages and much contact work taking place. As a result of this work Coach Harlow and his assistants have to be able to get a definite idea about their material...
...Repeal now," says the chief executive, "would encourage certain vicious minorities whose motives and conduct are inimical to, and destructive of, the principles upon which this republic was founded. These small groups of persons, among whom the very idea of God is repugnant, active in the opposition to the enactment of this law, and quick in the espousal of its repeal, would construe repeal triumphantly...
...Husband's Secretary" is just what you would expect it to be except that at one point someone though it would be a good idea to liven up the proceedings with a good roaring forest fire...
...have written about pre-fabricated housing since 1909," said Professor Gropius. "People laughed at me then, but now it has been shown to be the way to get better and cheaper houses in the future." He said that people are afraid of the idea of pre-fabricated houses because they think that all houses will look alike. Ridiculing this idea, he declared that competition among mass-production manufacturers would be certain to produce many varieties and types of houses...
Attention has been focused more and more on tutorial, affecting the minds or faculty and students alike, with the result that courses now offer less than a balanced diet. In many departments the tutorial idea has taken such deep roots that classes seem to be unconsciously regarded by the lecturer as a part to which the tutorial forms an inseperable complement. In some courses one is forced to conclude that, as far as an academic education is concerned, the man on the platform looks upon the tutorial system as the backbone and his lectures as somewhat unnecessary and irksome supplements...