Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Lloyd C. Douglas, 72, told a Boston interviewer that he was staunchly opposed to change and that he tried to get that idea across in books like The Robe and The Big Fisherman. "I have only one theme," he said. "All authors have only one theme, though few will admit it. My theme, it happens, people like, because they long to stay...
Astronomers used to think that only good-sized meteorites reach the earth intact, while the smaller ones "burn" to vapor on passing through the atmosphere. But Dr. H. E. Landsberg at the U.S. Weather Bureau had another idea. He smeared some microscope slides with glycerin and exposed them on a mountaintop just before a shower of "Giacobinid" meteors* was expected. Before and during the shower, he caught nothing unusual. But for many days after the shower he caught highly magnetic particles unlike anything found in normal dust-catches...
...idea captured, frail as it was, Loewy went back to sleep until a Loewy-designed alarm clock tinkled at 7 a.m., turning him out into a world filled with the products of his night & day dreaming. In his black, beige and bronze bathroom, with its motif of Nubian slaves, he plugged in his Loewy-designed Schick electric razor, used a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste he had modeled for Pepsodent, tore off the wrapper he had designed for Lux soap. Even the expensively tailored grey suit he put on was his own snugly fitting creation. Its special feature: inch...
...short, sharp paragraphs, the report dispelled any idea that the dollar shortage is something new; it started 35 years ago and has grown steadily worse ever since. Between 1914 and 1949, America's exports exceeded her imports by $101 billion. This "socalled favorable balance of trade," said the report, was largely paid for by $68 billion in Government loans & grants to Europe and more than $10 billion in private gifts. These grants "have in effect been unconscious subsidies to American export industries" at the expense of American taxpayers. The subsidies could be eliminated, or at least cut, only...
...books about the finish of the human race were laid end to end, authors might get the idea and stop writing them. Until then, readers can only hope that once in a while somebody will write a pretty good one, as bestselling Author George R. Stewart (Storm) has done...