Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Popular errors that Dr. Lawrence dispels include the notion that acne comes from too much or too little sexual activity (acne victims sometimes rush into marriage as a curative measure), too rich blood, venereal diseases, bacterial infections ; that it can be cured by sulphur & molasses or other home remedies, or by medicated soaps, hormone creams, special massages and packs, cleansing creams and oily lotions, kidney or liver pills, tonics, or special herbs...
...current U.T. double feature bears out admirably the popular notion that Hollywood's most widely publicized pictures are often its worst. All the publicity in the world can't save "Mother Is A Freshman." "Act of Violence," left to survive on its own merits, is a good melodrama, the strength of which lies in the conflict between the two principals and the resulting suspense...
...Josiah Holbrook of Connecticut had no notion at first that his scheme would catch on as it did. Back in 1826, he and his friends were only a handful, but they were serious about the idea that the nation's new common schools belonged to the public and that the public should be concerned to make them better. They organized the American Lyceum to help set standards, soon had members all over the U.S. For more than a decade these members made speeches, wrote articles, held public meetings. They got results: better training for teachers, the formation of state...
Ernest Bevin spoke the hope of millions of people who, having feared last year that the Berlin crisis might mean imminent war, now believed that the end of the Berlin blockade was at least the beginning of peace. In many quarters, the notion grew that the Russians were undertaking a strategic withdrawal from Europe. This attitude was balanced by a note of uneasy caution. Many observers found that by & large in their press and radio the Communists were being their usual difficult selves. Said U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery: "The flowers of peace cannot be expected to bloom...
...charge of developing the Air Force's planes and weapons, General Joseph T. McNarney, Chief of the Air Materiel Command, backed his colleagues' views, but he added a note of caution. In the 1930s, he recalled in an interview, airmen had the same notion, but the supposedly invulnerable bombers got badly shot up by fighters early in World...