Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NUMBER CAN PLAY-Edward Harris Heth-Harper ($2.50). This taut tale of what happened one night in big-time Charley King's midwestern gambling house will give ordinary bridge and poker fans a rough notion of the fever that throbs in a sure-enough gambler's veins. Of that momentous night when Charley had his triumph-and his comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling...
Most people had the notion that Potsdam once & for all had turned Germany into a country of fields and pastures, with a factory here & there to relieve the bucolic monotony. Actually, under the general terms of the Potsdam Agreement, Germany could have a substantial light industry. The Potsdam objective was to slash Germany's heavy industrial war potential. The Germans were to live at a level "not exceeding" the European average. Potsdam specifically provided for German imports to meet "Germany's approved postwar peacetime needs." What were the approved needs? What was the average living standard? Obviously...
...headed v. roundheaded men. Now, an anthropologist who deplores the whole argument - Dr. Franz Weidenreich of the American Museum of Natural History-contends that they have been wasting their time. In a well-documented report in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, he offers a convincing case against the prevailing notion that a long head (or a high brow) denotes a superior brain. Intelligence, he concludes flatly, has nothing to do with the shape of the head...
Plans & Prospects. Industry was ready for the cancellations. It had discarded the notion that a tapering-off in war orders would cushion the reconversion shock...
When the Blue Network had the happy notion of calling itself the ABC (for American Broadcasting Corp.), one Leonard Adrian Versluis (rhymes with caboose) protested. His Associated Broadcasting Corp. of Grand Rapids claimed prior rights to the catchy initials. This week Versluis' ABC announced that it was about to become (on Sept. 16) the nation's fifth coast-to-coast network...