Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...park was the brainchild of Walter Wilson. a white former Texan who is now a successful Berkshire real estate dealer. Wilson purchased the DuBois property several years ago, not knowing its former owners. When he discovered it to be the DuBois family homesite. Wilson contacted Edmund Gordon. chairman of the guidance department at Columbia University Teachers College. Together the two drew up plans to make the idea of a memorial park a reality...
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the center is the brainchild of Biologist Sidney Galler, who argued that scientists had not learned quickly enough of the birth of a volcanic island off Iceland in 1963. Other scientists agreed. In only 18 months, the center's cadre of voluntary observers has grown from a handful of people to more than 2,000 scientists in 120 countries. The Russians (though not the Chinese) find participation useful; last month the center flashed word of an event taking place right on the Soviet Union's Siberian doorstep: the eruption of long-dormant Kiska...
...innovation is the brainchild of Andrea Guterman, a junior from Woodside, Queens. When she asked friends about the idea during her first fall at Barnard, most said that the Ivy League had a rule against girl cheerleaders...
...original editors could not have known that their brainchild was destined to survive with incredible stamina an epidemic of wars, fierce competition, and depression, and to emerge as today's thriving enterprise, The Harvard Crimson...
Whitfield's brainchild was The Clubman's Club. It is designed to take advantage of Britain's stiff licensing regulations, which have led to a proliferation of "private" clubs. Gambling houses have to be licensed as clubs; so do any drinking places that stay open after 11 p.m. Anyone who joins Clubman's is provided with full membership in 400 not-so-choosy gambling, drinking, golf, tennis, striptease and other clubs, most of which charge a nominal yearly fee of $2.40 or more. Clubman's members, who pay $15 a year, receive little red booklets...