Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that. One of Postmaster General Farley's main reasons for getting back from politicking around the country was to address 1,550 members...
...suppose it is legal enough," said he, "but I just don't like the idea of getting money from these workers for political purposes. What they need to do is spend their money on food and clothing and shelter...
...Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to his borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties give him the right...
Such, at least, is the enterprising idea of James W. D. Seymour '17, president of the Harvard Club of Los Angeles, and Peter Macgowan '42, son of the Broadway and Hollywood producer, Kenneth Macgowan...
Think mostly about your attitude towards Harvard--the idea of Cambridge which you have formed perhaps before you have seen it. Is it narrow and cynical, or broad and naive? Has it been illuminated or spoiled for you by parental words? Has it been crowned with a halo by your school friends? Whatever the answer, be open-minded when you reach Cambridge--and that means be suspicious of everyone and everything until you are sure in your own maturing mind who and what is good or bad. If you come with an open mind, you will accept with equanimity...