Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People who think they know the worst about The Bomb have some grisly surprises in store. Even long-range, atom-carrying rockets (still in the designing stage) are already an old-fashioned notion. In this month's Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr. Edward Teller, a Chicago University physics professor who played an important part in developing The Bomb, looks alarmingly ahead...
...high schools who can afford the price. The simple expedient of sending representatives of the college to all secondary schools in an area, and not solely to those of the usual array of collected prep and suburban schools, would be the shot in the arm necessary to spread the notion of Harvard scholarships to a greater cross-section. A closer cultivation of educational advisers in the same industrial-rural area schools might dispel much of the gloom that these indifferently-informed sources pass on concerning the cost of a Harvard education and the possibilities for scholarship aid. Lastly, expansion...
...great document may be interpreted to mean something favorable to some special interest or to the general interest. With our new semantic awareness, we have become conscious that a man who says he's "a liberal" is not necessarily one in his actions. We are becoming conscious of the notion that "freedom" is not a thing abstract and absolute, but a word that has many actual uses...
...dead for the many students who wasted their effort to gain admission through the notion that education means acquiring skill in the use of a limited body of facts, or worse still, that an A.B. from Harvard is an end in itself...
...University's traditional and understandable passion for anonymity and the internal solution of her problems has long been considered a happy notion by exuberant students who throw their weight around, restrained only by the admonitory clucking of Yard cops. But in playing it cozy by failing to publicize the extent and frequency of the Parkhurst thefts, and recommend workable counter-steps, the University may well have cut off student noses to save itself face...