Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Franklin Roosevelt unveiled another plan he had been nursing. He nominated for Librarian of Congress one of the eminent literary persons whom he had consulted on the Hyde Park library idea: Poet Archibald MacLeish...
...program which does not carefully take into account the nature of man. I believe that fundamental, biological inequality is a fact of nature. I also believe that the instinct to preserve society is one of the highest sublimations of the erotic instinct plus reason and intelligence. The democratic idea, of the value of every human soul and the right of every human being to protect his own interests in so far as they do not too drastically infringe upon the interests of others, is not in the least incompatible with the aristocratic conception, provided the latter is removed from...
...years ago Lafayette College's President William Mather Lewis hit upon a plan to keep reunioning alumni sober. He invited them to free classes where they might refresh their minds and their respect for Alma Mater. Last week many another U. S. college had adopted Dr. Lewis' idea...
...great, sunbursty slick-paper prospectus issued last week, the Midnight Sun Broadcasting Co. gave advertisers some idea of the possibilities of the Alaska market. Alaska's bill last year for U. S. merchandise was $42,676,441. Fish cannery equipment and mining machinery were the biggest items. The petroleum bill was $3,505,819; tobacco, $1,061,621. The cosmetics purchases were not worth listing...
...Album had a good idea. But its first experiment in intellectual interpretation cannot be called a success. It is not only inaccurate; it is synthetic, unreal. The senior, taking his place beside the graduates of other years, is a marked man. He is branded as a conscious intellectual, an affected liberal. And only if the Revolution really comes, will the child of tomorrow look up from these glittering pages, wave his chubby fist in the air and cry, "Daddy, you're wonderful...