Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people lining the banks all around. It was an amusing gimmick, but it badly misfired. Whenever the boat got 75 or so yards away, the strings and woodwinds became totally inaudible and one could hear only the two horns and, in the finale, the two trumpets. The basic idea was not bad; the choice of music...
Then Rhyne fitted the week's specific idea into his week-by-week world theme...
...publication, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, gives some idea of the energy required. A 100-kiloton charge exploded on the surface of dry soil will form a crater 80 ft. deep and 580 ft. in diameter. The crater of a one-megaton charge exploded on the surface will be about 140 ft. deep and 1,300 ft. in diameter. If a charge is exploded 40 ft. down instead of on the surface, the diameter of its crater is nearly doubled. All these figures are for soil, not for resistant rock, but it looks as if a single megaton charge...
...spectacular achievements of Christ's missionary disciples, but today, ailing Christians are far more inclined to turn for relief to an M.D. than a D.D. More and more clergymen, including the new United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (TIME, June 16), are taking seriously the idea that prayer has something to offer the body as well as the soul. In October 1953, the Church of England appointed a 28-man commission of ministers and medical men "to consider the theological, medical, psychological and pastoral aspects of 'Divine Healing.' " Last week the report was out. Its gist...
...poor Brazilians' mud huts. The famed-Textbook of Medicine, edited by Manhattanites Cecil and Loeb, says flatly: "Prophylaxis consists in constructing houses so as to avoid cracks in the walls." Easier said than done. But Dr. Pinotti, once a poor boy in Sáo Paulo, had an idea: "One night when I was brooding over the problem, I remembered the ovenbird's nest.* As a boy, I used to throw stones at their nests, but the nests never cracked. They're like iron. Why?" A research project was hurriedly launched, provided the answer: ovenbirds...