Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palestine had convinced the British that two far-reaching changes must be made in the partition plan: 1) The proposed Jewish State must be reduced from 2,500 square miles to some 400, confined to the Sharon Valley, whose population is about 95% Jewish. 2) The Arab State idea must be abandoned. "Highest British authorities here believe that the Arabs are not yet fit for self-government and that therefore all Palestine outside the proposed Jewish...
...Kennedy had an idea that "unconscious whispering" might help explain the high percentage of correct guesses recorded by Rhine. A person trying to convey telepathically one of the five symbols on the ESP cards to another person's mind might imagine that he was shouting the symbol at the top of his lungs, and so might unconsciously move his lips or alter his breathing. These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened. Dr. Kennedy used blindfolded subjects who were not told the purpose...
...American Airways' Los Angeles Operations Manager Major Daniel E. Ellis had an idea, took it to California Institute of Technology's young Research Physicist Anthony Easton. Last week, Researcher Easton finished his job: the design for an automatic distress signal. The apparatus is a two-tube, five-meter radio sending set, cased against fire in two inches of asbestos, housed in the plane's tail, spring-mounted against shocks. Its short antenna is a streamlined metal rod running from the fuselage along the leading edge of the plane's vertical stabilizer. Designer Easton chose...
Kentucky law limits her Governors to one term. When Federal Judge Charles H. Moorman died this year, a way was seen for "Happy" Chandler to go up to the U. S. Senate without fighting Alben Barkley for his seat. Who approached whom with the idea of giving Senator Logan the judgeship to make way for Happy is a matter of dispute. Friends of Senator Barkley, who has ambitions to be President, say he killed the idea, lest his path to the White House seem to have an unworthy detour in it. Franklin Roosevelt asked Happy to be a good...
...Terror of Tiny Town (Jed Buell). "If this economy drive keeps on, we'll end up using midgets for actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from...