Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appeasement, obviously, was in order. Prime Minister Chamberlain, the Great Appeaser, deciding it might be a good idea to have a heart-to-heart chat with the real article, imported two burly miners named Scaife and Spouge from Yorkshire. As soon as they reached London, Scaife and Spouge made a beeline for Madame Tussaud's waxworks to get used to rubbing elbows with the great. At No. 10 Downing Street that afternoon they rubbed elbows with 400 non-waxwork lords, ladies, ministers, M.P.s. Scaife told the Prime Minister that before he left home his granddaughter had asked: "Will Hitler...
Winter and Perry are advocating the construction of a rink in front of Hollis Hall where water could be easily gotten from the pump. Skating not only for pleasure, they were also demonstrating the possibilities of their idea...
...they are the only adjectives that can adequately describe the character and work of Louis Brandeis. For this man throughout his career has been a fighter for the democratic ideal. Never content with a single triumph, he realized that the only safeguard of democracy was eternal vigilance. And this idea prompted his unceasing opposition to the forces of reaction, as his background so well illustrates...
...embarrassed by the decision as Defendants Pearson and Allen was the Copyright Office. If publications get the idea they do not have to file for copyright unless and until they think they are damaged, they may hold off in such numbers that the Government's $300,000 a year in copyright fees may dwindle to almost nothing...
...bank figures for the purpose of determining business trends are Townsend-Skinner and Co. Inc. In collaboration with them, the TIME Index of Business Conditions was worked out on these principles.* The final weighted average of accounting ratios is based on no assumed "normal." adjusted to no economists' idea of "long term trend." It is, in effect, simply a report on how sound business was last week, a subject which TIME considers news...