Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early in the fall, the Adams and Dunster House Committees simultaneously--and independently--decided to try to clean up the laundry problem. They came up with the idea of installing coin-operated washing machines in the House basements, allowing a student to run off his week's wash for a few cents. The University had previously faded the hopes of a local capitalist who wanted to install a row of these wash-while-you-wait contraptions, stating that a profit-making scheme could not operate on University property...
...class vote to support the foreign student as part of a nation-wide NSA project to bring DP's to colleges throughout the country. Each of the other three Radcliffe classes has a foster child in Europe at present, but the Class of '52 preferred the new idea of bringing a DP to Cambridge...
...return, he can petition for credit for work he has done, but there is no guarantee that he will receive it. Since few can afford to take the chance of wasting a full year, student are virtually forced to wait until after graduation, or to give up the idea of foreign study altogether...
...promoting business was not all Joe's idea. Last month in Chicago's Belmont Hotel, the champ had listened and nodded as two men unfolded the details of the deal. One of them was promotion-wise Arthur M. Wirtz, co-owner of Sonja Henie's Hollywood Ice Revue. The other was Grain Operator James D. Norris, son of the owner of the Detroit Red Wings. They offered Joe a third interest in a new promotional firm to be called the International Boxing Club. It sounded good to Joe. Last week, the three partners met again at Norris...
Modern surgeons do an expert job of operating on human bodies, Drs. Lipkin and Joseph conceded, but too often they ignore human emotions. Everything would be fine if only a patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...