Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hail" doesn't like military academies and he says so with vigor and bitterness. Out of the raging violence of his indignation there arise the virtue and the weakness of his play. Amid the early season trivialities of the theater, with no play-wright seemingly concerned with any idea more vital than that an actress should stick to acting, there is something a bit exciting in the sight of a dramatist in deadly earnest, with a chip on his shoulder and his soul filled with the conviction that the institution he deplores is a national menace...
...discussion of "Harvard Today," centering upon the Clubs and the Houses, the Faculty and Courses. Mr. Schlesinger is obviously not indifferent to Harvard indifference. He believes the Houses, "by balancing delicately between Harvard indifference and communal comfort have organized social life without cramping the individual." He likes the idea of the cross-system even if there are others who don't. His argument is direct and sustained, though sometimes with prophecy: "the House plan has made the Clubman, old-style, archaic. Diehards who will not follow their more reasonable associates to Eliot and Dunster are responsible for a growing spirit...
...general theory heretofore concerning the origin of the yell--one which Mr. Rinehart said had no truth in it--was that a lonely youth had conceived the idea of calling his own name up to a vacant room so that the other students would think he was not without friends...
...weeks, U. S. copper men have been arguing whether they should boost their price from 9.75? to 10? per lb. Fortnight ago, the idea got a stiff setback when potent Kennecott announced it had plenty to sell at the present price, promptly increased its output 25% rather than take a chance on having a runaway market at a higher price. Last week, U. S. copper men were still wary enough to make no price advance even in the face of the foreign rise, although in the past such an action would have been almost automatic...
Five years after the War, a British engineer named Daniel Nicol Dunlop conceived the idea of uniting the engineers of all nations to help put the world together again. With the aid of a number of industrialists such a conference was held in London in 1924. Engineer Dunlop did not anticipate then that the third such conference would meet in Washington and that the U. S. Secretary of State would find it appropriate to urge the engineers of the world not to participate again in movements to blow the world to pieces in another great...