Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playwright George Bernard Shaw, popular adoption of a king-size phonetic alphabet, is finally to get some development and promotion. Though G.B.S. left a tidy sum to his proposed ''alphabet trust," institutional beneficiaries under his will fought against relinquishing a farthing to further Shaw's idea (TIME, March 4); even his old friend Lady Astor dismissed it as "ridiculous." Last week's compromise in court: the public trustee of Shaw's estate announced that a maximum of $23,240 will be set aside for the project. A first prize of $1,400 will be offered...
...ranch when I come by." Marley's ghost wore a ten-gallon hat, toted a burden of land grants, mortgages and gold nuggets, and the Ghost of Christmas Past was a young cowpuncher who greeted Scrooge: "Howdy, pardner. I reckon you've been expecting me." For an idea that might have driven some viewers to Earp, it all went down quite smoothly, suggesting the not altogether happy possibility that A Christmas Carol may endure on TV till the cows come home. It also stirred some speculation about what the dickens the TV adapters may do next with...
...Testament and the New. Jewish holidays are celebrated with Christian interpretations. Example: the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah-to remind God of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac and. for Isaac's sake, the forgiveness of sins-contains for Jewish Christians the additional idea that Jesus died to atone for the sins of the world...
...accounts were swimming back and forth like salmon, changed their lures. At year's end Ben C. Duffy, president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and probably the best-liked man along Madison Avenue, decided to retire after a long illness. His heir: Charles H. Brower. 56, a top idea man, who lost the $8 million Revlon account in September, said he would "just go out and get eight new $1,000,000 accounts," has already caught...
...precisely defined core and cloud. Instead, the positive charge that had once been attributed to a core now seems to be intermingled throughout the particle with the negatively charged cloud of mesons. To the 200 delegates (including four Russians) this was disquieting news. Said one American scientist: "The theoretical idea of the neutron structure must be re-examined,"-i.e., back to the laboratories...