Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Paleontologist Gregory, 60, of Columbia University and Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History delivered the only public lecture at the National Academy of Sciences convention in Chicago, he again proved that a dramatic simplification of an old scientific idea makes good listening for laymen. His theme was "The Transformation of an Organic Design," and the design he referred to was a longtime favorite of Nature's, the "self-moving grappling bridge...
Many a lesser expert shouted his pro or con. But Dr. Freeman withstood all heckling, asserted: Our patients were treated by seasoned psychiatrists. Then they came to us. The results are permanent, appropriately, and not temporary. . . . We have not removed the idea by this operation. The idea is still there, but it has no emotional drive. . . . I think we have drawn the string, as it were, of the psychosis or neurosis...
...Chinese listened patiently and politely. They thought he was probably a good man, a little possessed, who was doing some religious penance. Carefully totting up each soul he had saved every year, Andrew was inclined to be doubtful about the women converts. "They haven't much real idea of what they are doing," he explained. "It's beyond them...
...column had a bit about the threatened "kissing strike" at the University of Utah, but space prevented us from giving out all the dope, more of which has come to light from the Washington State Evergreen. The boys on that paper became more than somewhat excited about the whole idea and set out to find out just what the boys and girls of Washington State thought about such a strike. They asked untold numbers of students, but couldn't find any who favored the idea. This discovery must have made them feel much better for they printed a couple...
This is, to say the least, unfortunate. This business of him who is without sin throwing the first stone may be all very well, but a false idea of politeness has detracted and still does detract from the greatest good of the greatest number--the vaudeville artist of today cannot be trusted to take absence of applause as a request for his departure, especially as someone in the audience (and he needs to be spoken to, too) always thinks everything is funny...