Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unconscious & Confession. The means psychiatry uses to make its cures are often experimental, and sometimes obscure. What about its ends? It aims to make its patients "wise up" to themselves -and thus get rid of a mysterious bellyache or a sad, twisted notion that a prince is coming to call any day now. That is an ambitious aim. Is it not, in fact, a challenge to religion on religion's own ground...
...Many of our friends among our jobbers, dealers and the consumer public continue to write us for copies of The Kinsey Report, under the mistaken notion that it is distributed free by the Kinsey Distilling Corp. We wish to advise them (especially those who forward us labels from Kinsey Whiskey or Kinsey Gin) that their request for copies of Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (popularly known as The Kinsey Report) should be directed to their local bookseller or to the publisher...
...tiny dolls. Proof of his brilliance lay in the fact that the tiny ones, of which he did hundreds, had a monumental quality. With their archaic smiles, compactness and classic grace of pose, they looked like quick sketches for heroic statues. But that was not Nadelman's notion in modeling them : he had hoped to take sculpture out of the park and put it on the mantel. Such little figures as his, he reasoned, could be reproduced for thousands to buy and enjoy at home...
...Their notion was that it was small towns, not big towns, that needed air service the most. Airline oldtimers scoffed. There was not enough traffic in the small burgs, they said. Besides, on short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste so much time on the ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes...
...asks that he should not be required to contribute $15 a term to support a Hygiene Department that he never uses. The intricacies of University accounting cannot guarantee that the $100,000 is a concrete balance, but even the committee's figures, which ignore this profit, support the notion that such an amnesty for commuters would not push the department into...