Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Charles Kersten of Wisconsin tried to familiarize him with the general idea by reading from Stalin's Problems of Leninism. "I'm afraid you're trying to indoctrinate me," Fitzgerald broke...
...production, Billy had an idea that "is so simple that it's a cinch to be greeted with screams and derision." The cost of hauling scenery off to the warehouse, then hauling it back again two weeks later and putting it up, says Billy, is close to $4,000. "Why, then, wouldn't it be smart to present two operas a week instead of five or six? ... Why not play Carmen the first half of the week and, let's say, Der Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season...
...teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...
...main arteries to Europe. Each week, four or five ships of half a dozen lines leave U.S. ports for Antwerp and Rotterdam. Some carry only a tenth of their cargo capacity, and many lose money on the run. But all the lines have the same idea: to entrench themselves for the day when the U.S.-Lowlands route may carry as much as 3,000,000 tons of freight a year between the U.S. and a restored Western Europe...
...Leonard brothers, in addition to low prices, lure customers with such things as shopping buggies that have space for both packages and babies. In keeping with their original general-store idea, the Leonards try to stock their counters with so great a variety that there is sure to be something in the store for everybody. Old hands at buying (and selling) "distress merchandise," they once bought eleven carloads of "surplus white enamel iron mosquito bars, converted them into wartime-scarce towel racks, and sold the whole caboodle at a nice profit...