Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brilliant young Dubos went to work on a fantastic idea which, like many great ideas, was almost laughably simple: Why not feed disease germs to soil micro-organisms and see which species thrived on the diet...
...public airing of a private grievance; some speculated skeptically on how quickly he would have shut the door on such an appeal when he was on the inside. But at week's end, Showman Schulberg reported a nibble. Some eastern bankers, he said, had approached him with an idea of forming a whole new company. But "I can't give out any more details until it jells...
...boys were having a hell of a time," said Randall last night, "and didn't realize that it wasn't the idea of their having fun in the Square, but the obstructing of traffic, that the police objected...
More money would be available to aid needy men, Harris said, if the full-cost tuition idea were accepted...
...minor suggestions, like toasters in Winthrop House, were adopted; proposals for more efficient steam tables were discarded as too costly. Seiler's general opinion, that the food would be greatly improved if the preparation was brought closer to the serving, was discarded as a good but impractical idea...