Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between blood poisoning which is killing his patient or the risk of causing agranulocytosis, however, the choice is simple. That Sulfanilamide is being abused, no doctor doubts. In Manila, men are using it instead of tried-&-true chemical or mechanical prophylactics against venereal disease, reverting to the traditional, false notion that an attack of gonorrhea is "no worse than a bad cold...
Since Egypt was already an "Independent Sovereign State" by the Treaty of 1922, the new Treaty is one of "Military Alliance/' intended to flatter Egyptians with the notion that they are held in esteem by the British as allies on equal terms. Held the Egyptians continue to be, for Britain is to retain 10,000 troops in the Suez Canal zone and British bombing planes have the right to operate freely over any part of Egypt-with Egyptian bombing planes given for the first time the privilege of operating freely over England.* The British Navy retains its permanent base...
...that Western Union and Postal Telegraph were about to be prosecuted for violation of the anti-trust laws. Prudence, said Mr. Willever, had dictated that in some cities each company should maintain its offices far enough from the other's to prevent ''dilution of business." Any notion that this could form the basis of an anti-trust action, Mr. Willever said, was as silly as the rumor that Western Union and Postal might merge (TIME, July 5). In Washington Department of Justice officials called the story "quite premature...
Readers will find here little confirmation of the notion that temperamentally the Japanese are suited to the English, the Chinese to Americans. To Madame Ichikawa, who claims the Japanese character "is like a peppercorn, small but hot," the English were the least compatible people she found. Students looked "just like asparagus cultivated under glass," so soft and pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart...
Among prominent London businessmen a notion keeps cropping up that there ought to be a way to buy for Britain immunity from German attack, and that the U. S. might be persuaded to help pay the cost of anything so obviously desirable. This school of British thought was heavily represented last week in the United Kingdom delegation sent to the ninth Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce in Berlin, a genial gathering of some 1,500 delegates from 41 nations. The British soap trust was represented by Chairman F. d'Arcy Cooper of Lever Brothers Ltd. who talked...