Word: notion
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...Agents of the Raj have had considerable success in frightening Indian public opinion with the notion that the rise of Hitler and generally of Dictatorship in Europe is a growing trend which makes the Constitution now offered India by Britain positively the country's "last chance for Democracy." In elegant and persuasive terms the speech of the Marquess of Linlithgow presented the positive and pleasant side of these ominous and negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which...
That the U. S. furnishes the world's best poloists is a notion as universal as were once the notions that the U. S. furnishes the best prizefighters, swimmers and tennis players. Last week, in full view of 38,000 witnesses including more top-line socialites than any other sports gathering of the year, this notion exploded with a dozen loud and startling cracks. The cracks were made by the mallets of four Argentine poloists knocking the ball through the goal posts four times in each of the last three chukkers of a game against the best team...
Thinking of ways to call Boston's attention to all this, Curator Tomita and Director Edgell hit upon the notion of borrowing a lot more Japanese Art and giving a big show in conjunction with Harvard's Tercentenary. President Count Kentaro Kaneko (Class of 1878) of the Harvard Club of Tokyo collaborated enthusiastically. So did the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, the Society for International Cultural Relations. Curator Tomita, who knows all the first-rank collectors in Japan, went to Tokyo in April. Director Edgell arrived in May, charmed the Japanese by laying flowers on the tomb of Professor Ernest...
...Administration are still committed to an easy money policy. Easy money means cheap financing, government as well as corporate. And a $1,900,000,000 cushion of excess reserves guarantees low interest rates and high bond prices for some time to come. Nevertheless, to squash any widespread notion that it was deliberately moving for tighter money, the Board took pains to state that its move was an anti-inflationary step offering "further encouragement to sound business recovery and confidence in the long-term investment market...
Dear to the heart of Publisher William Randolph Hearst is the notion that he can thwart and confound his enemies by the simple process of keeping their names out of his 33 newspapers. Two months ago Publisher Hearst added to his editors' list of unmentionables the name of Stanford University. Since Stanford is a prime athletic newsmaker, Hearstlings struggled over their sports pages, concocted such lame evasions as ''the Indians," "men from the Farm," ''the University at Palo Alto.'" What purpose his ban served only Publisher Hearst knew. What prompted it, however...