Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This would give the Allies the edge with a grand total of 282 divisions to 209 divisions for the Axis. It gives a rough idea of relative strength but is not definitive. Yugoslavia with 30 divisions. Bulgaria with some four divisions might join the Axis. Some professional soldiers believe that Germany has at least 30 more divisions-nearly half a million men-besides those Major Eliot names. So instead of 209 divisions the Axis strength would come to 273 divisions-not counting Japanese...
...jazz. Then he plunged into the acid eddies of dissonance and atonality, emerged with the reputation of being one of the least understandable of U. S. musicians. Today, Copland has begun writing music for the people, for as large an audience as possible, "to get rid of the idea that American music is a weak sister...
...last winter Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters of the Minneapolis Star had a fine idea. When King George and Queen Elizabeth reached Winnipeg on their tour of Canada (see p. 23), Minnesota would send a delegation to greet them, thereby stealing a march on the other 47 United States and providing the Star with a good promotion stunt. As the Royal Train neared Winnipeg last week the city was jammed with some 15,000 visitors from nearby States; twoscore U. S. bands were on hand to play God Save The King; a squadron of U. S. Army planes from Minneapolis...
...Judging from the record, the [steel] industry has become allergic to profits. To look at its performance you would think it had anticipated those who want the profit system abolished, and for all practical purposes had established itself as the first great industry devoted to the idea of production...
Strait, author of "Union New" and former New York Union correspondent in Geneva, Switzerland spoke recently at the University as guest lecturer in the Government Department explaining his democratic union idea which has received widespread acclaim...