Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilitate its transformation into understandable newspaper copy. That this was necessary can be understood from the titles of some of the papers. Such titles as "Serological and Allergic Reactions with Simple Chemical Compounds," "Sedimentation in Relation to Faulting," or "The Kinematical Structure of a Spatially Uniform Universe" give an idea of the difficulties that some of the crack minds in the newspaper world had to contend with in order to prepare a daily story for popular consumption...
...Some idea of the executive task behind the arrangements for the Tercentenary may be had when it is realized that for two full years preparations have been going on for a celebration less than three months long. Knowing the nature of the work ahead and the inevitable problems that would arise, the corporation loaded the burden upon the capable shoulders of Jerome D. Greene...
Fostered by oculists and type salesmen, the idea of lightening the newsprint page with bigger type is a definite trend in U. S. publishing, though few have gone so far as Los Angeles' Times. To revise its format, a paper of the Times's size starts by spending some $10,000 for new type matrices. Because the larger type prints less news per page, at least twro more typesetting machines are needed to compose the additional two or three pages. Such machines cost around $4,500 each, are manned by operators earning $58 to $65 per week...
Patterned after Wimbledon, the idea of holding the men's & women's championships at the same time worked out well at Forest Hills last year. That last week's gate receipts were bigger than last year seemed, in view of the weakness of the men's championship as an attraction, due mainly to the fact that the United States Lawn Tennis Association had decided to do so again. For female tennists at least, last week's tournament might well have rated as the No. i event of the year. In it were entered four members...
...discourse on "Uncertain Inferences" Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher of the University of London, onetime investment statistician, conveyed the idea that, though mathematical logic may compress uncertainty into a small area, the smaller the area the greater the uncertainty. He gave a problem which, if it were not for the uncertainty of inferences, would be readily solvable: "The agricultural land of an Egyptian village is of unequal fertility. The fertility of every portion is known with exactitude, but the height of the Nile affects different parts of the territory unequally. It is required to divide the area between the several households...