Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brief Glow. The horrors of Beria's camps and inquisitions have been told by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky, by Victor Kravchenko and Vladimir Tchernavin. These atrocities are so vast that, like Himmler's corpse factories, they are almost unbelievable. Meanwhile, a smaller, gentler story gives a notion of life in the police state...
Born in Russia on Christmas Day 48 years ago, Soyer came to the U.S. at twelve, left high school after his sophomore year to work and study painting at night. Like his less well-known brothers Moses and Isaac Soyer, who also paint, Raphael grew up with the notion of painting what he knew as skillfully and unpretentiously as he knew how. Last week's show was his first in five years, and for it he had painted 23 new oils...
...purposes, was to be regarded as an expert on nothing. The National Affairs department was not written for politicians, nor Foreign News for cosmopolites, nor Books for bookworms, nor Sport for sport fans. The whole magazine was supposed to be comprehensible to one "busy man"-a vastly different notion from daily newspaper departments (women's, sports, finance, etc.), each appealing to special groups. To get all of TIME into one man's head it had first to be put in language that one man could understand. Later, the idea was expressed this way: "TIME is written...
...news-gathering organization. TIME, founded on the notion that a surplus of news existed which had to be licked into usable shape, felt no need to gather its own news until the 1930s. Then it began building up its own reporting system, for the same reasons that had led to the research system...
Professor Pound slammed the popular notion of an influential Communist Party in China. "There are scattered Communist agitators and conspirators here and there," he said, "and in the North there are Communist armies." But he claimed the leaders of these armies are like the old war-lords whom the National Government has overthrown...