Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which this correspondent believes is so well rooted nothing will upset it. ... He has a touch of iciness ... of truly Arctic proportions. . . . But this kid is a 'speed demon'. . . . Numerous white hairs have been caused by his jeep-driving. . . . [He] apparently has a notion that cars were made to travel on two wheels...
Alex's mistake, his caustic father-in-law (finely played by Dudley Digges) tells him, lay in his subscribing to the notion "that bad men are stupid and good men are smart." But the scornful old liberal, who knew better, himself behaved worse. He cynically abandoned his fighting newspaper, sat snorting in the shade...
Theoretically, although the odds are trillions of trillions to one, such spontaneous activity is possible. The notion was first suggested by the late great Physicist James Clerk Maxwell, and physicists speak of it as "Maxwell's Demon." It is based on a fundamental law of thermodynamics known as "the principle of increasing entropy" (i.e., disorder...
Dangerous Living. Today the infantry comprises less than a fifth of the U.S. Army (the Air Forces and the Service Forces both exceed it in manpower). Public appreciation of the infantry has lagged far behind, partly due to the mistaken notion that the Air Forces had the most dangerous job. No less an authority than Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, chief of Army Ground Forces, is responsible for the statement that thus far in World War II the infantry takes "more than half our total battle losses." The infantryman also "endures great hardships, he gets more tired, he sleeps less...
...life herself, that since Lonergan is a psychopath, his impulse to kill her was irresistible. In the U.S. 24 States do not allow an irresistible impulse as a defense, 18 do. Five, including New York, allow it only if the impulse "be so strong as to ob literate the notion of right or wrong." Insanity? Another point which the defense has taken pains to verify: Lonergan's mother was in an Ontario mental hospital three different times. Broderick may try to prove hereditary insanity...