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Word: idea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bilbo thus returned to a favorite theme and revived an idea older than the U. S. itself. By subsidizing a Negro exodus to Africa, he maintained, the U. S. would rid its whites of a depressed and depressing race, save itself from racial "amalgamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mr. Bilbo's Afflatus | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

When Jack Neylan gets an idea, into it he sinks his teeth. This week he was trying out the Neylan Plan on the hardest-boiled top men of the U. S., politicians mostly excluded. His first finding was obvious: pigs is pigs. Giving away five billions sounds like lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neylam Plan | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...French-British policy of encirclement." Worldwide opinion, however, remained about the same as it was before either message or speech: that Adolf Hitler would not be curbed by words. But if he was strictly truthful for once in a public utterance, the world had been given a pretty good idea of where the next trouble spot was situated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hitler's Inning | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...corset aims to release, rather than to flatten, hips -employing soft fabric gores and gussets on the sides to lighten the hip control. . . . The better to accentuate the bust . . . some corsets mount from two to six inches above the waist. . . . Already, of course, you're used to the idea of the camisoles, petticoats, ruffled panties, batiste underwear with lace or eyelet embroidery that aided and abetted Edwardian silhouettes. . Soon your figure may be slightly Edwardian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Method. Joyce's idea in Finnegans Wake is not new. More than a hundred years ago, when Nathaniel Hawthorne was living in Salem, he jotted in his notebook an idea for a story: "To write a dream which shall resemble the real course of a dream, with all its inconsistency, its strange transformations . . . with nevertheless a leading idea running through the whole. Up to this old age of the world, no such thing has ever been written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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