Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Mothers, a Philadelphia lady named Anna Jarvis reasoned some years back, are overworked and underpaid. They should be recognized, rewarded on one day a year. She took her idea to the florist around the corner who forwarded it to the national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public which has proved to be the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut rate telegraph plaudits has taken Mother's Day to its soft...
...second argument, and the one which Mr. Acheson is emphasizing, is that the aid would promptly lift morale in the countries getting it. Recent events support his theory; when the arms question was first mentioned, representatives of most of the Western European nations enthusiastically applauded the idea, and appeared with polite requests for various amounts of military gear totaling something over three billion dollars. The most frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming...
...idea was that the crystal would lead the gas to the cancer, which the gas would then destroy. It didn't work. But Orrie M. Friedman and George Wolf --who have been doing these experiments for three years--may have luck with their newest chemical: phosphoric acid esters...
...Unanticipated Disaster." The Classical Greek and Oriental idea of the progress of man, says Author Niebuhr, was that there was no such thing. Like the endless cycles of nature, the projects and enterprises of men and nations were thought to flourish and die again & again in an eternal circle of recurrences. Man's only hope, Plato taught, was to free his spirit from imprisonment in the living death of the bodily world. When the Biblical-Christian conception of history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views...
...Koussevitzky said goodbye to Boston Friday and Saturday with a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony which will long be remembered by those privileged to attend. It was not by any means a definitive performance, however. There were the usual alterations, sacrificing the composer's intentions for Koussevitzky's idea of effect, and the physical limitations of Symphony Hall's stage forced the conductor to use a smaller chorus than is ordinarily employed. But Dr. Koussevitzky's interpretation of Beethoven's masterpiece was one which for sheer beauty and noble concept will seldom be approached...