Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States has got to keep the idea of a Communist menace alive for obvious reasons," he said, "but I don't know if there are any Communists left in this country...
...idea, however, was rejected, due to the difficulties that would result from a flood of students taking their meals at various places around the Square. Dogherty said there were still "possibilities" that such action might be taken...
However, Rafton "has no idea" how the money needed to establish such a chair could be raised. He suggested that "when you broadcast such an idea, someone might take it up." If funds are not forth-coming, Rafton called for "guest lecturers" in Humanism...
With his electrician son Luben, 19, he fixed up iron shields to fit in front of the radiator and on the sides of the motor, and then filled the space with concrete to stop border guards' bullets. Luben thought of another idea. Out of old pipes and bits of glass he built a crude periscope, so that during the last dash Traiko Ivanov could steer from the comparative safety of the floor, where the whole family would...
...atoms. Plato disagreed, saw it as a symmetrical expression of mathematical relations between five basic structures. Then came the theory of light radiating in continuous waves. German Physicist Max Planck overturned that in 1900; he said energy comes in discontinuous particles-or quanta-and Einstein followed him with the idea that light can be thought of as both particle and wave...