Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcome to a Wife. Two years from now, anyone entering the Virginia cemetery will find the fountain in a courtyard, surrounded by a marble wall. "The idea," explains Milles, "is to help people overcome the tragedy of death. To show that people have a good time there, too." There will be a young husband, arms out stretched to welcome his wife into the afterworld; a mother greeting a daughter; a French family which had been killed in an auto accident; two sisters who had drowned; an American mother who had died in childbirth, and her baby who had died three...
...nation we are moving from the idea that the State should be neutral as between the churches or religious faiths, to the idea that the State should be neutral as between all positive forms of religion on the one side and an aggressive secularism on the other...
...created the old engine with stainless steel and aluminum bronze parts where they would do the most good. They improved the regenerator and increased the pressure of the "working" air to 50 atmospheres (735 Ibs. per square inch) at peak. They tinkered hardly at all with the original idea of the 19th Century Scotsmen. When they got through, they had engines that weigh only 10 to 20 Ibs. per horsepower and are about as efficient as diesels. Their simplicity makes them cheap to maintain, and they burn almost any fuel, from oil to coal or corncobs...
...start a Paris edition of the Times, as rumor had it. The Times gave up that idea two months ago. Said Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger: "There's not going to be a Paris edition, there's not going to be a Berlin edition, there's not going to be a London edition, there's not going to be a Peking edition...
Hollywood laughed when it heard that this young upstart wanted to make pictures himself. His actor friend, Graves, had a terrific idea for a script-about a Bowery bruiser who adopts a baby. Hughes was impressed, laid out $50,000. This picture, Swell Hogan, was such an arrant turkey that it was never released. The wiseacres laughed louder...