Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great idea," said Boss Farley...
...Ministry (TIME, Aug. 17). Now that skilled and outspoken Sir Christopher is out of the way, silky Air Ministry civil servants have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering nature about this genteel idea, and last week Lord Nuffield blew the lid off. He declared that under "shadow aircraft engine industry" one factory is to make the crankshafts of British airplane engines, another is to make the cylinders, a third the ignition systems and so on. Vehemently Lord Nuffield pointed out to Lord Swinton that under...
...World Champion New York Yankees offered himself to Hollywood film producers for the role of Tarzan, hitherto acted by Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Dressing up in a leopard skin for Manhattan cameramen, Yankee Gehrig threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news hawks as he boarded the Queen Mary, "Tarzan" Weissmuller tartly observed: "I suppose they...
Prizewinner Ward is a professional advertising artist. The idea for the composition came to him while watching his own son reading at home. Artist Ward painted the background of reverie on a sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester...
...when the Diocese of Massachusetts made so much work for his father that its western half was lopped off to make a new see, young Lawrence was a baseball-playing student in Boston. In 1911, when Bishop Lawrence was hobnobbing with the elder Morgan and formulating the idea which later grew into his Church's $30,000,000 Pension Fund, his son was a tall, handsome Harvard senior, completing his course six months ahead of his class and returning to coach the fresh man baseball team. Schooled thereafter for the Church, Wr. Appleton Lawrence got his first cure...