Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical influence goes, every trumpet player in the country copies Louis to some extent. The best "solo" Harry James ever played, "Just a Mood" was lifted note for note from one of the old Louis records. Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, and the whole crowd not only copy his ideas, but try unsuccessfully to imitate his phrasing, the secret of Louis' greatness. Father Hines learned some of it from him and started the "trumpet" style piano from which present piano-men get their ideas. Louis can take three notes and make them mean more than fifty by anybody else. The reasons...
...success as a writer is due almost entirely to my lack of education. You see, some people have called me a literary stylist, but that's not al all true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...
...over, that henceforth wars will again be fought by small groups of professionals trained especially to handle war's complicated machines. According to this theory, the draft would largely be confined to industrial workers conscripted to produce the machines. Until only a month ago Britain's idea of help to France in case of war was that of furnishing a few highly mechanized divisions and her Air Force...
...idea of shatterproof glass was born in 1903 when a French chemist, Edouard Benedictus, knocked a bottle containing dried collodion from a shelf. The bottle cracked but the fragments did not spatter. Benedictus concluded that they were held together by the collodion film. He got a patent in 1914 but the first shatterproof glass did not appear in automobiles until...
...could not mount the ship's gangway at Boulogne, had to be hoisted aboard by derrick, unloaded the same way. Asked how he met his wife, Barney Worth replied: "She came into my butcher's shop for some meat. She bought a lot, and I liked her idea of an appetite. ... It was love at first sight." An average Worth daily diet: 12 Ibs. of meat, five loaves of bread, three cabbages, many a goody...