Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people the Moscow explosion was more than a possible argument in a political debate. If there is one thing all U.S. citizens could accept as the issue of this war, it is the notion that Law and not Force should regulate international relations. Even so, last week no U.S. citizen, even among Polish immigrants, would have advocated serious U.S. commitments to correct the Russo-Polish border this way or another. But many Americans felt that Stalin's P.S. to Teheran was quite a mortgage on the desired future of U.S.Russian friendship...
This small (202-page) book is big news because it combats a hard-plugged notion that U.S. farms are going to be huge land factories, and makes an intelligent case for the survival of the small farm...
Without the faintest notion how they might be built, he predicted radio loud speakers, chain broadcasting (in 1909), visible radio waves (now accomplished by the cathode-ray oscilloscope), television (his friends credit him with coining the word). In one of Gernsback's first science fiction stories (1911), a character futuristically named Ralph 1240 41+ drained a dog's blood, filled its veins with a mythical preservative called "Radium-K bromide" and three years later restored the dog to life by pumping blood back-a fantasy which Gernsback claims has been fully validated by recent Soviet dog-reviving experiments...
...Contrary to "a quite prevalent notion that college life fosters elbow-bending," college men & women drink less than others...
Wrote Dr. Herman Louis Kretschmer of Chicago's Presbyterian Hospital in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "There seems to be a prevailing notion that ... all that is necessary to effect a cure is to perform an orchiectomy [castration]. It is extremely unfortunate. . . . Results are . . . anything but desirable...