Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific. He had been West Point's First Captain, and one of its greatest students. He had been the Rain bow Division's commander in World War I, later the Army's youngest Chief of Staff, and always the professional soldier's notion of what a professional soldier should look like. Now he was rumpled and untidy and probably for the first time in his life he looked...
...fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service found an average of 7,000,000 bacteria per beer glass (the notion that alcohol makes a glass safe is a fallacy...
Most remarkable thing about the Army's plan: with due allowance for military necessity, the order of release will be based on the G.I.'s own notion of fair play. Teams of the Army's Research Division went to posts around the world, systematically sampled the opinions of every nth man, questioned a total of 26,500 soldiers-9,000 of them...
Heart Man. In heart cases particularly, many doctors insist on prolonged rest in bed. But Dr. Tinsley R. Harrison, a heart specialist of Southwestern Medical College, Dallas, said this was just a newfangled notion. He cited the cases of two famous physicians-Sir James Mackenzie, "the father of modern cardiology" (1853-1925), and John Hunter (1728-93)-who lived strenuously for many years with serious heart diseases. He mentioned also the angina pectoris patient of the famed 18th-Century physician, William Heber-den, "who set himself the task of sawing wood for half an hour every day and was nearly...
Obstetrician. The notion that expectant mothers should quit work and take to their beds was attacked by Dr. Nicholson J. Eastman of Johns Hopkins. Deploring the common industrial practice of discharging pregnant women, he cited wartime findings that light factory work does them no harm, that they can safely work until six weeks before delivery. Dr. Eastman added that women do not need as much rest between babies as commonly supposed; a study of 38,000 mothers showed that the optimum interval is one to two years (TIME...