Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact prices were going up & up, and God only knew where they would end. After that, he digressed from economics (publishing a treatise on witchcraft called the Demonomania of Sorcerers), and went on to six volumes of political theory, his major work, in which he set down the notion that the state is supreme and inviolable as a matter of natural right. That right, he said, springs from the people's need for a strong protecting hand in troubled times...
...leading prohibitionists, also recognizes the difficulty of curing addicts. He recently said: "Those who have got used to spirituous liquor of any kind cannot bear the compulsory privation ordained by state prohibition without a suitable substitute. To replace wine, whiskey or toddy by tea is based on the fallacious notion that the problem is only a matter of selection of fluids...
Another duty of the Dean of Freshmen is touring the country's high schools as a salesman for the University. Dean Leighton's circuit includes Illinois, Nebraska and lowa. On these trips he particularly tries to debunk the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class are now police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City...
...first encounter with Broadway. They have loaded their book with all the stock melodrama of opera and the seediest monkeyshines of operetta; they have lavished on South America all the tritest features of the tropics and the Balkans. The only thing more incomprehensible than the plot is the notion that any one could follow it. It is a mess of pagan rites, political wrongs, an opera bouffe general (Hugo Haas), vociferous emerald miners, and the love of a bus driver (John Raitt) for a high-born spitfire (Dorothy Sarnoff...
...Henry Bessemer toyed with the notion, other inventors dreamed of it; last week it became a reality. In Beaver Falls, Pa., steelworkers poured molten metal into a mold, watched the melt slowly make its way down a 75-ft. tower, to be cooled, cut and ejected as a steel billet ready to be shipped. Commercial steel had at last been cast from molten to semi-finished state in one continuous process...