Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jessup sent out for a chicken sandwich and a cup of coffee and relaxed. At least for the moment, the most immediately hazardous threat to world peace had been removed. In Paris, at the end of May, the U.S. would get a better idea of what the man on the other side of the open door was thinking, what was behind his "Hello...
...Truman did not think much of such a proposition. But the House strategy was up to Sam, Harry Truman added. Labor leaders also gagged at the idea of accepting the hated injunction. Nevertheless, they quietly passed the word to their friends in Congress to support Sam's substitute. They were even ready to accept the injunction if they could get rid of most of the Taft-Hartley Act. That is, the majority of them were. John Lewis, who had had to pay through the nose for defying injunctions, was dead set against any compromise...
Last week the new owner of the moldering phalanstery did not know quite what to do with his acquisition. He could always wreck it for the lumber. But he had an idea that it might become a tourist attraction: it seemed like the kind of thing a vacationing capitalist might spend two bits to inspect...
When a top level Harvard committee admits the University may have made a mistake, it's a good idea to watch what happens next. Last week, the Committee on Educational Policy made such an admission indirectly, when it set up Donald C. McKay's special committee on Geography. No one can predict what this group will suggest, nor what will happen to its recommendations, but it's a pretty good bet that something will be done to patch up last year's hasty hatcheting of a vital field...
Prof. Fletcher did not "play" with any topic. His remarks consisted exclusively of direct quotations from the press. His statement on the indecency of a deliberate war was part of a general criticism of the idea of an unprovoked "preventative war" touted by many irresponsibilities in this country and not, as the CRIMSON article implied, advice to abject surrender in the event of unjustified aggression. John M. Bailey...