Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter of a Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they were wasting their young lives addressing envelopes. They agreed that a dramatic gesture was required to break the world's shocking indifference. A wonderful idea was born...
Hamilton Holt's own idea for a successor was "either an old man of renown, or a young man with promise." Last week, the trustees voted for youth. At 31, big (6 ft. 1 in.), jut-jawed Paul Alexander Wagner, businessman and former instructor in education at the University of Chicago, will be the nation's youngest college president. When Rollins found him he was No. 2 man at Chicago's Bell & Howell...
...tenants were high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's 4,000 separate air-conditioning units. "Such a luxurious standard," said the FORUM, "is enforced on U.N. by the contiguity of Icelanders and Abyssinians . . . each with his own idea of thermal comfort...
Arthritis is one of man's and animals' oldest identifiable diseases; traces of it have been found in the bones of Neanderthal man and of dinosaurs. But doctors have no sure idea of its cause or cure. Ten years ago, when the International Congress on Rheumatic Diseases last met, the yanking of teeth and tonsils was a leading treatment recommended by the rheumatics experts. Last week, when the Congress gathered in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the 794 physicians from the U.S. and 25 foreign countries were excited about emotions and hormones...
...succeed retiring General Manager Johnson in 1950? Rudolf Bing considered it carefully. The Met's directors liked him even better for the way he candidly answered their questions about his policies and prescriptions for curing the artistically and financially ailing Met. Said Bing: "I have not the slightest idea. How can I have before I have learned all about the Met?" Bing and the Met reached an agreement last month, but withheld the announcement for three weeks...