Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman's reproductive organs to another man." Commented Lord Wheatley: "Of course, it is not another man, but a test tube. She does not know who the man is. How can you have intercourse with only one person present?" In his preliminary ruling, the judge noted: "The idea that adultery might be committed bya woman alone in the privacy of her bedroom is one with which earlier jurists had no occasion to wrestle," concluded that it did not constitute "adultery in its legal meaning...
...clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations, two newspapers and four radio stations agreed to go along, arid next day all of them...
...unreliability, which "is a matter of common knowledge to those who read newspapers." It is hard to make pump-fed engines much more powerful than they are now, and "the reliability of a single liquid-fuel engine is so low that even the most optimistic may quail at the idea of grouping more than a few turbopump systems into a clustered stage." Rocket engines using a solid propellant fire perfectly almost every time; they can be used in large clusters with expectation that all of them will do their duty...
Burlington Lines President Harry C. Murphy seconded this idea, also charged that "subsidized competition" was one of the chief reasons for the rails' troubles. While the railroads are forced to lay out more every year for maintenance and to pay local taxes, the "Government spends more and more on airways, highways and waterways for the use of our competitors who contribute little if anything to the cost of local government" through property taxes. James M. Symes, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, No. 1 U.S. carrier, also pleaded with Congress to end direct and indirect subsidies for trucks, airlines...
...understood that a decision in favor of permitting students to live outside the Houses, or a rejection of the idea, will be reached today. For several months, two committees have studied the possibility of allowing students to live outside the Houses, in order to reduce the number of "forced commuters...