Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, Samborski dickered with the idea of running two leagues with a playoff between the two winners for the Yale game honors. The purpose: a more camel season for both players and coaches...
Popular request, however, caused him to drop the idea and take up the present one in which no team will play more than twice a week, and usually only once. The quarters will be eight minutes during two-game weeks and ten minutes during the others...
With no definite idea of a starting team and only four days to come up with one, Freshman football coach Henry Lamar has plenty on his mind this week. Out of 36 or more good-looking grid prospects he must by Saturday manufacture a squad for the opener against a polished Andover eleven...
...encourage this inquiring spirit, Dr. Ray joined with 56 "intellectually curious dentists" last week at Baileys Harbor, Wis., for a seminar on dental medicine above the grind-and-fill level. The main idea, says Dr. Ray, is that dentists examine a lot of people who think that (except for tooth troubles) they are perfectly well. But the mouth is lined with delicate mucous membrane which often shows signs of deeper-lying ailments. If the dentist is alert and informed, he can spot hints of syphilis, leukemia, Addison's disease, many other ills. He is thus in a position...
...began making auto spotlights, small drills and grinders, fractional-horsepower motors; by 1938 he was in electronics and television. In mid-1942, the Air Forces, alarmed by crashes at fogged-in English fields, asked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work out a blind-landing system. They developed the idea with practical help on production problems from Gilfillan engineers. The first G.C.A. was a cumbersome rig, with 705 radio and cathode-ray tubes, but it worked. Gilfillan got a contract to make 112; the Navy ordered another 80 units from a competitor. Gilfillan says he hustled out his 100th unit...