Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid advertisements at "the American cars which are so conveniently brought in from Canada" under Empire tariff agreements. At great advertising expense a feeling has been nurtured in the United Kingdom that to buy a Canadian car from beyond the seas is not really to "Buy British." This notion was blasted and a page of Empire business history turned when it was announced by London's Buick Sales Manager that King Edward had ordered an enclosed Buick built to his special order in Canada at Oshawa...
...dead, survived his reappearance from among the scullery maids. The great Army, Navy and Air Force leaders, who frankly despise Japanese politicians and businessmen, assumed that a new Cabinet is indicated-with themselves more strongly represented than ever before. Everyone else assumed that a new Cabinet is indicated. Any notion that Premier Okada. having barely escaped assassination, should superintend the prosecution, conviction and execution of the clean young Boys was far from Japanese thoughts...
...performance of Muni. But the stolid determination, the unflagging perseverance, and the simple kindliness so ably portrayed by Muni jibe nicely with the popular conception of what the quite genius must have been. The plot as well as the character keep a close grip on fact. A vivid notion is given of the stern battle of a humble scientist against ignorance, fantasy, and professional bigotry. Coupled with the accuracy, however, there is a most judicious selection of dramatic incident. Foremost in this line is the scene in which Pasteur is compelled by circumstance to call upon his proud, disdainful opponent...
...excited political circles talk was veering around from the urgent rumors fortnight ago that "Bumbler Baldwin" could not much longer remain Prime Minister, to the opposite notion that the Arms Boom is creating an elated situation in which, no matter what he does or says, he will be as popular as Herbert Hoover...
...Special Theory blew up the notion of an absolute frame of location or "hitching post" in the universe. Two observers moving relatively toward each other had to carry their own frames of reference. The two would not agree as to the separation of events in either space or time. But the interval-the separation of events in four-dimensional space-time-would be the same for all observers if their relative speeds were constant...