Word: ideally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West, the iceman's unattainable ideal, was back on stage after a year's layoff. In her new play, Ring Twice Tonight, she opened in Long Beach, Calif., then rumbled northward, hoped to last all the way to Broadway. Her role: an undercover agent for the FBI. Supporting cast: two maids and 15 men. Covering her added attractions: two negligees (one at a time)-one in orange and dove grey, the other just lacy orange, backed with white satin here & there, and here & there...
...George's, Diman thought, came close to the ideal of a general education, but because it taught slowly, and tried to teach character and not job skills, it "clearly and necessarily had to be a school for rich boys."* Diman wanted to do something for working-class boys. In 1912, the Diman Vocational School opened its doors in Fall River, Mass., the big mill town where Diman's father had been a minister. Backed by Unionist John Golden, the school trained boys of 14 to 16 (too old for grammar school, too young for the mills) in manual...
Said to be in an ideal mountain atmosphere, the Observatory, established in 1940, worked during the war on research activity vital to naval radio communications throughout the world, though this work has until now been of a highly confidential character. With an annual budget estimated at $50,000, the station will now "assume a greatly increased role in solar research and other phases of astronomy which can be done best at high altitudes...
...move in the right direction has been made by Lowell House, whose common room remains open for guests until midnight on Saturdays. The ideal extension of this use of common rooms to all Houses and on all nights of the week would rob the rooms of their primordial function as a center for gregarious bachelors. But a rotating system, with the common rooms of each of the seven Houses open in turn until midnight, would provide a satisfactory solution from all angles. From the point of view of co-education, there can be no qualms concerning this proposal. Exactly such...
Runaway Allegory. Wherever he got his idea, Plato did not expect Atlantis to be taken literally. He meant it as an imaginary site for an ideal city, as described in his Republic. Men who came after began to accept Atlantis as fact. For 2,000 years the legend grew. Cultists built on it, explorers searched...