Word: notion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to carry out that mission. No consideration of personal profit or glory ever entered Loyola's mind, and I believe the same can be said of Hitler." Such an expression was bound to anger devout Catholics who, for 400 years, have been obliged to refute the persistent notion that Ignatius Loyola, sternly militant founder of the Society of Jesus, expounded the doctrine that "the end justifies the means." First to protest to the Sun was Father Henri J. Wiesel, S. J., President of Loyola College. Paul Patterson, president of the Sun, wrote Father Wiesel...
...fixed "season." Only punctuation of year-round activity at major studios are annual "sales conventions," at which studio officials ballyhoo to their distributors the pictures they plan to produce during the next year. By last week, all major studios, except Columbia, had held their conventions, provided cinemaddicts with some notion of the screen fare in store for them...
...fight for his good name newsworthy last week was the fact that Cartoonist Gray and his editors were receiving countless letters from excited readers throughout the land, asking if the strip was supposed to be a sympathetic portrayal of the case of Samuel Insull. Two facts made such a notion absurd: 1) neither Editor Patterson nor The Tribune is an Insull-lover; 2) Cartoonist Gray draws his strips ten weeks in advance, had Annie's Daddy on trial before Samuel Insull was even arrested...
...health unless they are dedicated to the public is praiseworthy. And since no patents can be taken out by members of the University, such unfortunate affairs as the Emerson-Drinker suit will be a thing of the past. The combined faculties by adopting this new ruling are preserving the notion that a University exists primarily for the public welfare and enlightenment...
...practical application has been felt for a long time. Public service as a career is the United States, has not often attracted men of outstanding ability. In striking contrast stands the efficient bureaucracies composed of well educated men in England, France, and Germany. Too long has the notion been prevalent in this country that politics should be left to the politicians sided by clerks to do their bidding. The fellowship that has just been warded points the way towards the creation of a system which will provide the civil service with men specially trained, for responsible positions. Studying intensively...