Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kings and heart of the old Austrian part of the country.* He was attending the Academy of Commerce in Vienna when the War broke out, left school immediately and joined up with the Polish Legion organized by Pilsudski to fight on the side of the Austrians against the Russians. Idea of the Polish Legion was that the greatest part of Poland was held by Russia and therefore Russia was temporarily the greatest enemy. However, the Legion had so little interest in fighting for the glory of Emperor Franz Josef's reign that it was soon interned, to be released...
...spite of the fact that the French Army (including reserves) is now more than twice the size of the German, the French have never cottoned to this idea. France's population is only half as large as Germany's, and in a prolonged conflict she would ultimately need man power as well as money and arms. Worried French Governments have long urged the British Government to pledge unqualified support in case of war. Last week in a House of Commons debate on a $2,900,000,000 arms appropriation for the coming year, France got that pledge...
...nation is gone but the notion came into its own at San Francisco in Pacific House. A clean, well-lighted place, surrounded by the pavilions and temples of India, Siam, Burma, Indo-China, Japan and the Americas, Pacific House has map-murals as its principal decoration. Its urbane idea-man was Philip Newell Youtz, recent director and modernizer of the Brooklyn Museum. His best idea: four large (15-by-24-feet) mural maps of the Pacific side of the world, by Mexico's Miguel Covarrubias...
Mack and Groves had a new idea for Phoenix. Instead of buying up good investments at bargain prices in the manner of Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., they would buy up ailing or bankrupt industries cheap, cure them and sell them high. Celotex looked good to them and in 1934 they acquired common stock control...
...thin air and Roland Young reacting violently to invisible kicks. There are belly laughs a-plenty in the approved Hal Roach manner. Those who have been "Topper" may find that the humor of trick photography wanes after a while, for the essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic idea lies in its originality. This element is necessarily lost in the sequel and, since no new angle is added, the spark is gone. In fact, the replacement of Cary Grant by a fox terrier named Atlas is even a slight detriment. Billie Burke, as Mrs. Topper, runs away with...