Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trumpet riffs around star number two betray a guy with a perpetual grin, Roy Eldridge. Roy, besides being one of the top swing men in the country, manages to play more fast trumpet than anybody around. To get an idea of why he got the nickname, "Wild Man," listen to "After You've Gone" (Vocalion...
Already the Clinic has been besieged by upperclassmen who are entranced by the idea of flicking through the pages of their reading assignments. Immediate expansion may be impractical; but scientific zeal for thoroughness should not prevent the University from making more generally available, certainly in the near future, the immense practical benefits of the scheme now in embryo...
...more than 150 years [the illusion of equality] has served to delude the masses. . . . The idea that an individual as a matter of right and regardless of his qualifications should be able to participate in determining any and every question which may catch his fancy . . . seems to me to qualify the term democracy for classification as an illusion...
...American people to detect [these] ancient fallacies? . . . Why have so many educators been so easily persuaded to chase butterflies that will take all education as we have known it in America into oblivion? . . . To conclude . . . I think there is a basis for hope. . .. I think it is in the idea of noblesse oblige...
...Standard." Henry Flagler, Standard official, complained of John D. Rockefeller: "He would do me out of a dollar today," then caught himself and added hastily, "that is, if he could do it honestly." McClure's flourished as the articles appeared, went on growing until McClure announced his biggest idea: a chain of commercial companies, a model community. Steffens, Tarbell, a McClure partner, several staff members, resigned in a body. McClure's never recovered. But Ida Tarbell implies that the staff members never functioned quite so well working for themselves or for less trying editors...