Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong with the state. It was not Lawrence Welk's fault. As a matter of fact, Welk has seldom missed a chance to give the old homestead a warm plug on his TV show. It was just that so many people on the outside have the ridiculous idea that prairie-patched North Dakota is too blamed cold in the winter (lowest recorded temp.: -60°) and too darned hot in the summer (highest...
Instantly there came the idea that has been cropping up in North Dakota for a long time: a new name for the state, something that was more romantic-anything, in fact, that would make North Dakota sound gay, cheerful as a bottle of champagne. That is how the question stood. Legislators were batting new names around, and Homer Ludwick had hope in his heart. Perhaps they would drop "North," and call it "Dakota." Or maybe "Miami," someone suggested, or "Dixie," or "East Guadalajara," or, with a nod to their Canadian neighbor, "South Manitoba." Maybe even "Welk...
President Pusey in his annual report to the Overseers endorsed this proposal as "a thoroughly workable solution." Although there has been unofficial endorsement of the idea before, this is the first time that a "House without beds" has received public support from an administration official...
...National Monetary Commission of twelve to 17 members. About one-third of them would be drawn from Congress, and the rest chosen by the President from all walks of business and finance. Though FRB is not actively pushing for such a study, it would gladly go along with the idea...
...essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...