Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since then Kenyon has passed two stiff tests. First was to face down the animosity of its Ohio neighbors who, learning that Founder-Bishop Philander Chase had raised his first $30,000 from the British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase, the Founder's nephew. Valedictorian of the Class of 1842 was Rutherford Birchard Hayes...
Friends of the new Finance Minister said that his mind seemed fastened last week on the notion that, since some 45 billion paper and gold francs are supposed to have been tucked away by French "hoarders," somehow or other the Blum Cabinet can get these billions back into circulation "partly by threats" and thus avoid the necessity for devaluation-all this sounding last week to most of the world's fiscal experts like gibberish clear to no one except M. Vincent Auriol...
...Brace ($4.50). In 1881 the inimitable musicomedies of Gilbert & Sullivan were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Shrewd Producer D'Oyly Carte was planning to send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis & Smith have chronicled his U. S. peregrinations against a lavishly illustrated...
Since its discovery Friday, computations of the stellar body's orbit and other conclusive calculations have already been made by the Observatory. The local astronomers were only second on the scene of notion, however...
...year-old Negro lady's-maid who never stays long in one place. She invariably resigns her domestic job before she is fired. To Juanita work is simply the means of making enough money to move on. She began her travels at 16, and gradually got the ambitious notion of going round the world. In 1927 she had enough money saved to start. This diary of her eight-year journey through 22 countries was arranged (but not corrected) by the daughter of one of her employers-by-the-way. The title was not Juanita's invention, though...