Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until recently, atomic physicists thought they knew nearly everything there was to know about the atom. Now, Nuclear Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer told the meeting, they are "frankly puzzled." The notion that an atom consists only of electrons, protons and neutrons has been knocked into a cocked hat by the discovery of mystifying sub-particles -positrons, mesotrons, and a hypothetical particle called the neutrino...
...controls was violent. Headlines told of prices of meat, milk, butter and bread shooting up. Like fat in a fire, accounts of sky-high rent boosts sputtered noisily in the news. In the first day or two it seemed to many that the nation had caught panic at the notion of being on its economic own, and free of Government price controls...
...great surprise of classical physicists, the electrons, recorded on a screen after they went through the holes, made a wave "interference" pattern. The experiment proved that, somehow, each electron went through both holes at once. The discovery, a great blow to the notion that matter is indivisible, led to the theory that a particle can be broken up into fields of energy which alternately reinforce and cancel each other, exactly like waves...
...company sure enough-This stomached me a little. . . . I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. . . . I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother . . . from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general, and from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy, and reached her present bulk in less than 35 or 40 years. . . . [But] no woman that I have seen, has a finer face . . . and in [mind] she was not inferior . . . to any with whom...
Romford's headmaster-to-be, Joseph Stetson, a teacher of science in Washington's Landon School, thought the notion "a little leftist" at first, but came around fast when he saw the kind of leaders who would preside at Romford's salons. Among them: Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas, Kaiser-Frazer's Joseph Frazer, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Scientist Vannevar Bush, ex-Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds, Connecticut's Governor Raymond Baldwin, China's U.N. Delegate Quo Taichi...