Word: notion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expanding business as the United States Government. The rest must be attributed to the people as a whole. The very lavishness with which the Government pays for its wants has been a brake on individual production. Large classes of labor and groups of manufacturers have become impressed with the notion that they are indispensable. High wages have made it appear to many workers that they are fulfilling a patriotic duty by merely being present on the job. High prices for ships, military equipment and munitions have convinced some manufacturers that their obligation is fulfilled by the mere fact that they...
Despite the racy notion on which the piece is founded, it affords genuine and, for the most part, wholesome laughs. The spice of the play is not nearly so vicious as that of other less shocking shows that have played Boston this season--"Upstairs and Down," for example...
...show thereby our willingness to do what we believe most patriotic. Certainly we would not urge a measure which entails so many minor difficulties unless we were convinced the end justified the trouble. By one such example, however, it is possible to inculcate especially in those affected some notion that they are citizens of a nation in arms. Few of us have really felt the "pinch of war," yet if we show ourselves willing to undergo a slight trouble for the sake of a principle most irrefutably correct, we begin to see our position. Everyone who is compelled to check...
...States has learned one great lesson in the war. The Government now recognizes that this successful prosecution of the military campaign requires the mobilization, distribution and conservation of workers. It is a lesson we should have learned from the experience of other nations; indeed, we did have a value notion of the importance of intelligent supervision of labor when we entered the struggle. But the actual necessities of the case were not comprehended until our own errors and mistakes enforced them...
...would leave unmolested; it is of no military value. Its largest room is no more suited to drill purposes than Sever 12. That Lord Howe wished to sail up the Bronx river to conquer New York State seems ridiculous to us, but it is no more so than the notion that a company can learn tactics in a chamber the size of an average lecture hall. To cross the Alps was a great feat in Hannibal's time; it was a simple move compared to giving about face in the Municipal Building. Something must be done for a joke...