Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Macfie Campbell, ingoing president of the American-Psychiatric Association, toyed with the notion of lending psychiatry to statecraft when he asked: "In the sphere of politics and statesmanship, is it possible to make the present available knowledge of human nature of any practical effect? ... As a beginning one might arrange a special consultation service for legislators and statesmen, where they could get some insight into the problems of their own personality as an introduction to a proper understanding of their fellows...
...responsibility of the Government Department to society, which the Crimson editorial emphasized, cannot be assumed to be fulfilled by shifting the focus of attention from political theory ("the art of government" according to the Crimson) to political practise. The notion that the practise of government can or ought to be studied at the cost of the least neglect to a careful consideration of the bases and objects of government, is a fallacious notion...
Since what happens 100 years hence is of no consequence to anyone now old enough to enjoy the cinema, the notion of producing a film of which the longest and most spectacular portions deal with 2036 seems, at first glance, daringly original...
...have every confidence in the ultimate issue of the conversations which have begun. Indeed, I know how great a place idealism and scruple occupy in the British temperament. In the present circumstances, which are serious for the future of peace, France upholds that same notion of collective security by means of the covenant which is so dear to British popular opinion. I need only ask every Englishman carefully to read once more the text of the Locarno Treaty that he may exactly take stock of the obligations resulting from...
...less than a century ago all good doctors believed that female hysterics were directly caused by a violent disturbance of the womb or hystera. This belief was an outgrowth of an ancient notion that the womb was a free-moving organ-"like an animal within an animal"-which at times roamed the body and tickled a woman to immoderate and uncontrollable laughter. This theory died only when it was clinically established that men could have hysterics no less than women. Best modern thought is that sex tension is only one of many causes of hysterics...