Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flaunting an impressive sheaf of endorsements by high government officials, the Committee for Latin-American scholarships has returned to the limelight. Since Secretary of State Hull has labeled its scheme "a great idea" and promised "the full cooperation of the State Department," Harvard must recognize the group's serious intent--therefore proceed to an objective consideration of the plan...
Summing up in Science, Dr. Gregory noted that the idea of a comparatively recent divergence of man from the anthropoid stem is generally repugnant to "that self-conscious and conceited prig who calls himself Homo sapiens and is fond of acting like the viceroy of God." He points out that some scientists who ought to know better keep toying with the idea that, during the general evolution of the vertebrates, a sort of separate channel was set aside for the line which was eventually to flower...
Clearly Playwright Shaw's soft-spoken melodrama is a parable of how the gentle souls of the world, taxed too far, rise up and destroy their oppressors, whether neighborhood bullies or world-famed Reichsführers. Put as blithely as Shaw puts it, it is a cheering idea. The trouble is that, while it makes The Gentle People a likable fable, it makes it an absurd play. Humorous mood and melodramatic plot refuse to jell. Murder is usually a fairly serious business, and murder conceived and carried out by two good-natured fishermen should be fairly agonizing. Instead...
...combed the farm lands nearby, the bitter cold weather became too much for Foster May and he ducked into a small, lighted shack to warm up. Inside, another man was toasting himself. The man recognized May, they chatted briefly, and then May left to join the chase. Outside an idea suggested itself. Back went May and began asking pointed questions. The man stirred himself wearily...
Kentwood was the idea of nine manufacturers* who teamed up in Depression to form the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild and promote the prestige of Guild-stamped furniture. First plans were drawn by a designer named David Laing Evans, a pipe-smoking, spare-time student of astronomy. Designer Evans submitted ideas that were basically classical. Thereafter the designers for all nine Guildsmen collaborated in streamlining the classics. The pooling of their efforts was an unheard-of procedure in their individualistic industry...