Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That formidable California bulldozer, Senate Minority Leader William Fife Knowland, is a man who sometimes will not see the trees for the forest. When he has an idea, he thrusts straight ahead to the conclusion-and often manages to carry a lot of his countrymen along with him. Last week Bill Knowland, a United Nations delegate himself, pushed through to a conclusion about the Middle East and the entire U.N. that scattered a whole grove of carefully planted Administration trees...
...idea of Student placement was initiated by the College as far back as 1885 when the Secretary of the College "was active in this field," but for 60 years, the concept of a permanent office was little more than a whimsical procrastination. In 1945, however, the Office of Student Placement was finally organized with John W. Telle as Director. Since then, the Office has grown in facilities, but not in personnel as the present staff of Crooks, David P. Huntington, and four secretaries is approximately the same staff that held the office together 11 years...
...radio interview, Soloway attacked the idea that there is "anything more holy" about unearned income from rents than from stock dividends, which are now taxed more than twice as heavily as earned income...
...science of roommate-choosing has its roots in darkest antiquity. Neanderthal man used the purely pragmatic approach, testing his prespective cavemate's worth by applying repeated delicate blows of the club to the latter's cranium. Although clubs today profess to more advanced methods of social scrutiny, the general idea has remained the same throughout the dim search of Man for Friend...
Stricken out was language "authorizing" Eisenhower to use armed forces in the Middle East, but sponsors of the change quickly explained this was not done with the idea of denying him this power...