Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea, practical or not, is additional testimony to the fact that "radio" is writing its name across the sky in more and more alarming capitals. Already the scheme of a "traffic cop for the air" is out of the musical comedy stage, as anyone will agree who has heard the exquisite discords emanating from the "magnavox",--the lady in Wellesley Hills trying to sing, the trio in Newark on the piano and two other instruments (to all intents and purposes a pair of steam calliopes), and the gentleman in Wilmington who wishes to talk about the natural development of cucumbers...
Proposhals for a National Theatre, a permanent home for standard drama in America, are again before the critical public. The scheme for a New York facsimile of the Theatre Francaise has been a pet ideal with high-minded producers and theatre people for a generation. Some years ago it came to a disappointing fruition in New York's Century Theatre, where shortsightedness, or perhaps too much farsightedness, made it a failure before it had begun. Now a definite plan seems again to be shaping, under encouraging auspices: but as yet no word has been spoken that makes Augustus Thomas...
...company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but no one to know what it is", when promoted in 1720, caused the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. Involved in the ruin were not only the great enterprises headed by the South Sea Company itself but schemes for extracting silver from lead, for "furnishing funerals to any part of Great Britain", and even for a perpetual motion wheel, capitalized at a million pounds. Contemporaneously in France, Law's expansive scheme for exploiting the Mississippi. Valley collapsed, sweeping French aristocracy into bankruptcy. In more recent times there have been...
...individual and group tuition the deficiencies of the lecture method, there can be no doubt that the student is expected to acquire his education mainly by the assimilation of lectures. He does not, and cannot in fact, do this, for, although the lecture has its proper place in the scheme of education, it is wholly unsuited to serve as the main instrument...
...every year which appear so obvious that men wonder why they have never thought of them before. Further improvement is always possible, and it only needs someone to bring suggestions to the attention of those with power to translate them into action. Yale has hit up-on the scheme of a series of debates among discussion groups of twenty or more men, upon the subject of "What is Yale for?" The first meeting of these resulted in a keen criticism and discussion of features of undergraduate life. California has a Student Welfare Committee whose duty is to bring forward ideas...