Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt a twinge of concern at the thought that Mr. Romney's company might try to combat Big Three competition by following along with the planned-obsolescence idea. Since the compact-car buyer is a discerning soul, he is not happy with yearly model changes. What he desires is gradual improvement where improvements count: in engine efficiency, better braking, lighter weight, lowered drag, better suspensions, readability...
...farewell to his family and went off to live in Paris, where a few years later he died of tuberculosis, leaving behind a sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became an eminent New York surgeon-biologist, suggested to John D. Rockefeller the idea of creating the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Strapping son Albert inherited the artistic bent, went to Paris to study painting, grew the inevitable beard, married an aspiring American painter named Adele McGinnis, stayed on in Paris as a bohemian expatriate for several years before going home...
Congressman Herter's most important achievement was helping to sell the U.S., especially skeptical Midwestern Republicans, on the Marshall Plan idea. In 1947 Herter proposed creation of a special Select Committee on Foreign Aid, became its chairman, shrewdly arranged that its 17 members should include a sprinkling of deep-dyed isolationists. Leading his committee on an allwork, no-play tour of war-ravaged Europe, he saw to it that his fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe...
...common occurrence among the deans and Senior Tutors to run across "athlete insecurity" among those on scholarship. Often a student will get the idea he was accepted solely because of athletic ability, and feel an obligation to sacrifice other college values to "paying back" his sponsors on the athletic field. Thus the Admissions Committee must be very careful to choose athletes who they are sure will succeed academically, not those that can merely...
Until Social Relations 10 was introduced in 1957, the Department was "at a horrible disadvantage" in the race to recruit Freshmen, Pettigrew said. Most students, when they enter college, "have not the slightest idea what sociology is, although they are quite familiar with most other subjects...