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Word: idea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Committee, however, still favors the idea of reviews, as it believes they constitute a desirable part of the educational system and fill a gap not previously covered by the University. It also feels that reviews help to correlate course material. Supplementing this belief is the knowledge that many unable to afford the prices charged by the tutoring schools would be glad to take advantage of free reviews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFFICIAL REVIEWS FOR FRESHMEN TO BE DISCONTINUED | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

...this season, the team has had no acid test, winning both the Green wood Men's Club and Providence Boy's Club meets with the greatest of ease, and the annual Alumni obstacle also caused no difficulty. According to Ulen, these encounters served primarily to give him an idea who's who and what's what; and in general, the squad's performance was very encouraging. Several facts with a slightly pessimistic hue, however, were forcibly revealed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

...bolder, and young ladies far less scrupulous. To enjoy the play version of "Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal, woman to a mere bundle of hovering, pent-up passion, afraid to let herself loose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

Recurring in the Public Utility Act of 1935, which was aimed at eliminating holding companies not "demonstrably useful," is the phrase ''geographically and economically integrated." One idea of the Act is to encourage rearrangement of power properties in the best interests of the local population. Toward this end two big New England holding companies asked the Securities & Exchange Commission last week to approve a swap of various Massachusetts gas and electric properties. Of no national moment in itself, the deal was the first attempted under the Utility Act, may mark the start of a general reshuffling among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Massachusetts Swap | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...married. That job lasted four years, left Lola with a daughter and some alimony. In Hollywood where she now lives, she likes to pass the time of day with her neighbors, with the milkman. Talking with them, hearing their wondering comments on her ups & downs, gave her the good idea of putting it all on paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scratching Queen | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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