Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . Finally TIME has performed the neatest bit of magic to date-it has converted gliding and soaring into Transport, of all things [TIME, Oct. 8]. Poor impractical me, I had always had the benighted notion that motorless flying was just pure useless sport. I'm glad TIME put me right, though. Now I won't have to wait any longer for the $700 airplane; I'll just get myself a sailplane and soar out to see the world. . . . ROBERT B. RENFRO...
...land. But between the Governor's inaugural in January, and the harvesting of the new cooperative crops, the unemployed would have to be fed. So farmers would be asked to trade their surpluses for warehouse receipts good for taxes and for manufactured goods. The original EPIC state scrip notion was modified, since Mr. Sinclair admits his lawyers would have difficulty finding a way to circumvent Section 10, Article I of the Constitution, which reserves for the Federal Government the sole right to issue money...
...there has also been a cosmic disturbance between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who thought the rays were by-products of the steady annihilation of star substance. To pious Dr. Millikan the notion of a universe crumbling to chaos was repugnant. But to honest Dr. Millikan a fact is a fact. The fact that moved him to change his mind, he admitted last week, was the high energy of some cosmic rays. Low energy rays might still be deemed to arise from the building of elements. But when rays of 10,000,000,000 volts are detected...
Precisely what this meant no German perhaps knew, but millions thought they did. Somehow by a process of conscripting German youth for a year into the ranks of Labormen, as France conscripts its youths for service in the army, Adolf Hitler has a notion that he will produce his kind of Socialism, and in addition ideal human material for soldiers. On the front...
...many critics have called his stories "competent." Says he: "There is evidently something that a number of people do not like in my stories and it is this they try to express when they damn them with the faint praise of competence. I have a notion that it is the definiteness of their form. . . . My prepossessions in the arts are on the side of law and order. I like a story that fits. ... I am not unaware of the disadvantages of this method. It gives a tightness of effect that is sometimes disconcerting. You feel that life does not dovetail...