Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When told that students of Leslie College in Cambridge have decided to offer the same service to voters in the national election, Miss Uris said she "thought it was a good idea, and would see if her group could arrange a similar system...
Serious Job. As psychiatry's U.S. sales manager, Dr. Will is well aware that any new branch of science gets a rough kicking around by the public until the idea has been well tested. Psychiatrists take some comfort in the thought that Galileo was jailed, that Lister was hooted at by his medical colleagues, and that Darwin, who changed the whole course of Western scientific thinking, was attacked viciously in his lifetime...
...brothers, philosopher and organizer, work together well, with little evidence of what psychiatrists call "sibling rivalry" (jealousy among brothers & sisters). Dr. Karl and their father, Dr. Charles Frederick ("Dr. C.F."), founded the Menninger Clinic in 1920. Dr. C.F., who started as a horse-&-buggy doctor, got the idea from the Mayos. Now a gentle man of 86, he teaches mineralogy and seashell-collecting as one of the treatments for Menninger patients, supervises the planting of trees and flowers on the 34-acre grounds of the Menninger Foundation...
...when Mickey Mouse had already made Disney famous, Kamen went out to Hollywood, sold him the idea of letting him handle the manufacturing royalties. This was an aspect Disney had neglected; two years before, needing money, he had sold Mickey Mouse to a children's tablet manufacturer for a paltry $300. Kamen rushed to Manhattan to open an office called Kay Kamen, Ltd. (cable address: Mickmouse), never let that sort of thing happen again...
...Bock's answer seconded the committee's idea that an effort should be made for students to see the same doctor each time they come to the cinic...