Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hyman Pill's hardware store. That is, there is nothing remarkable about it at the present time. For but a few short months ago an unusual store was opened at that location. The store was "The X-Mas Outlet." It was a very nice store even if the idea of cut-rate Christmas has certain sentimental drawbacks. There were shiny cars and golden-haired dolls and smiling, happy salesmen. All this joy was, of course, to be fleeting. The foreshadowing of doom was a bold sign that stood in the front window, "EVERY DAY IS CHRISTMAS WITH US." The store...
...deployment of the grant, Brower asserted that "my idea is that it should be used for people who will visit in various fields." He is now in the process of inviting poets and scientists to reside in the House for a time. At least one such figure has agreed to come to the House, but Brower would not reveal who had been invited...
...Council also agreed to accept student complaints about lost HAA ticket books, and take these to Lunden. Athletic Affairs chairman Stuart L. Levine '58 reported that Lunden "thought it was a good idea," although the problem had not yet arisen...
House of Numbers (MGM) offers to whom it may concern what is probably the most ingenious improvement in the fine art of can-opening since the cake with the file inside. Like most great inventions, this one is based upon a simple idea: Since prisons are designed to prevent exit, might it not be much simpler to effect entry? In short: the easiest way to break out is to break...
...idea occurs to a lifer named Arnie (Jack Palance), whose brother (also portrayed by Actor Palance) happens to be his dead-ringer. To his brother and his ever-loving wife (Barbara Lang), Arnie communicates his plan: let his brother jump the wall of the prison's industrial area, which is lightly guarded during the night, and hide in a stack of crates. Next night Arnie will hide in the crates while his brother sleeps in the cell; during the night Arnie will dig a man-sized hole in the ground near the prison wall, cover it with boards...