Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governments of the U.S.A., Great Britain and France still cannot give up the idea that the Big Four allegedly possess some magic power to unite Germany . . . But why should this question be decided by anyone but the Germans themselves...
Fair Division. World Bank President Eugene Black welcomed the idea, and both New Delhi and Karachi accepted the bank's good offices. But years of hard work failed to temper nationalistic passions. Suggestion after suggestion fell through; scheme after scheme foundered in a sea of mutual antagonism. Doggedly, the World Bank continued its efforts, and last month in Washington won agreement from India and Pakistan to a fair division of the water flow until March...
...bright yellow, 380-h.p. Belond Special, designed, built and owned by Mechanic George Salih of Whittier, Calif. Salih took the standard four-cylinder Offenhauser engine used in most Indianapolis cars, installed it on its side at an 18° angle for cooler running and lower center of gravity. The idea was so successful that 16 of the 61 original entries in this year's 500 have sidewinder engines. To cut the time on pit stops, Salih this year installed an air-jack system, estimated it could lift the car into tire-changing position in eight-tenths of a second...
...gives an effective description of one of the weirdest fads of the '20s and '30s. Dredged from the bottom of the Depression, the dancers were "horses" rather than humans, swung on their feet for days, weeks and months-with an eleven-minute break every hour. The idea, recalls June, was to turn the dancers into animals, make them near-insensate or "squirrely...
...outside wall and curve elegantly overhead like jets of water frozen in a high wind, explaining with professional pride that they are actually "Bernoullian lemniscates* with zero end curvature." Says Torroja, "Every mathematical curve has a nature of its own, the accuracy of a law, the expression of an idea, the evidence of a virtue...