Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their official statement of policy says: "The Young Employers reject all notion of privilege, class or caste . . . They do not consider militant unionists as enemies . . . The right of the man who will and can work to obtain by his labor the means to support himself and his family is absolute . . . The idea cannot be to give all men the same start, because nature has given them unequal physical, moral and intellectual gifts . . . The real ideal is to give everyone a chance . . . The real goal to pursue is that . . . all workers should have the opportunity of becoming capitalists . . . An atmosphere must...
Elderly Dr. Capito, more than delighted, sent Composer Modarelli his $1,000 check and expressed the hope that River Saga would "flow on and on and on," and give other U.S. cities the notion of doing something like...
...TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention the pursuit of happiness...
Hams & Cigars. John Dewey was born in Burlington, Vt., a bustling town of 15,000 whose citizens had no particular notion that young John would ever amount to so much. To them he was just the painfully bashful Dewey boy who delivered papers after school. His father, the proprietor of a grocery store ("Hams & cigars: smoked and unsmoked"), was a courtly man with a flowing beard, who quoted Milton and Robert Burns, and told of bullets whistling through his hair during the Civil War ("I always thought that that was how he got bald," says Dewey...
...heard notion that coaches spend "sleepless nights" when they have worries is quite pertinent this week in the case of the varsity soccer team; and Coach Druce Munro hopes his sleepless nights will bring about a Crimson triumph when the team takes on Army at noon today on the Business School Field...