Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as strange as his beginning. At 46, Hubard became obsessed with the notion that Houdon's marble bust of George Washington ought to be cast in bronze. He built his own foundry, spent seven years and all his savings to make six reproductions of the bust. At the start of the Civil War he tried to recoup his losses by turning his foundry into a Confederate arsenal. He began experimenting with explosives and blew himself...
...Force's notion, in brief, is that the most destructive counterblows can be delivered by very heavy, long-range bombers, land-based. This thesis was propounded by Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and vehemently seconded by Stuart Symington, who as a civilian producer of bomber gun turrets had visited London during the blitz and had never forgotten what he had seen there. Ground-force generals agreed with Spaatz...
...Navy's notion is that the retaliatory attack could best be spearheaded by aircraft carrier groups (which the Navy describes as floating airbases), capable of moving anywhere in the world and closing with the enemy. For that mission the Navy set its sights on acquiring four carrier groups and a total air strength of 14,500 planes...
Peck still clings doggedly to the notion of being a stage actor. It is not that he considers himself too good for movies (he doesn't think he is good enough), nor even that he thinks plays are better than pictures. But he still believes that the theater is the best place to learn how to act. He has been instrumental in organizing a Selznick-financed group of movie people (Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Dorothy McGuire, et al.) who do stage-acting in their spare time. But it will be a long time-three years at least-before...
...where the Tribune got the facts for its story, headlined "Lectures Give Queer Notion of Red State," is still a mystery to University officials. Mrs. Dean has never yet appeared here, nor has her course, scheduled for next spring, ever been given...