Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armed with a telegram of encouragement from Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, Editor Norman Cousins, of the Saturday Review of Literature, spoke over boos and catcalls. To his fellow delegates he said: "I ask you to believe that the American people . . . are not speaking out against the idea of peace . . . They are speaking out against a small political group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian, and being anti-Communist does not automatically mean they...
...hung on. He signed up with the union, managed to get his beer through a couple of distributors and a Brooklyn brewery, announced that he was going to have the windows washed, and keep at it. Said he solemnly: "The people want it." By this week Sam's idea had spread to other saloons in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, and Sam was getting more trade in a day than he had drawn before in a week. The nickel beer was here to stay, Sam announced...
...vacation, Love thinks be might have a pretty definite idea of who will fill the 24 slides and three coxswains' seats available at the opening race against Princeton and MIT, Saturday, April 23. Right now he's naming no names. He just wants to pile up mileage and watch...
Freshman crew always attracts swarms of candidates in the fall because relatively few secondary schools have rowing teams, and those uninitiated to the art of oar pulling are intrigued by the idea of gliding along the Charles River in slinky shells with bottoms one-sixteenth of a inch thick...
Arthur M. Shercliff, resident Choate fellow, who thought up the idea, is the producer of the show. Shercliff, an Englishman, came to this country last fall. While in England, he acted in nu-numerous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, including "Trial by Jury...