Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the notion that a baby is a kitten or puppy that needs nothing but feeding. Babies are people, says Psychiatrist Dunbar, and should be treated with respect right from the beginning...
Compleat Angler. No old tale or new notion was unworthy of Aubrey's attention-for "these curiosities," he said, "would be quite forgotten, did not such idle fellows as me putt them downe." From old Dr. William Harvey, who had discovered the circulation of the blood, Aubrey got eyewitness accounts of Sir Francis Bacon, whose eye was "like the eie of a viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh...
With this in mind, the Council should to every-thing in its power to encourage campaigning. The most immediately attractive notion is for the Council to provide free mimeographing service to all candidates who have something to say and yet don't want to spend the money. This is the least the Council could do to foster a decent volume of campaigning and possibly raise voting above the "I like Joe" level...
...goats," who has scoffed at the notion of ESP, scored considerably less than mere random choices would give...
...correct a misstatement made in Monday's CRIMSON? I don't know where your reporter got the notion that I said that Emerson and Thoreau were "subjects of persecution when they attempted to speak out 'for peace and liberty.'" I made no such remark. My speech at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace dwelt on the aspects of the American tradition most valuable for the world today and cited specifically Emerson's internationalism, Thoreau's determination to stand on principle in resistance to what he deemed an imperialistic war against Mexico, and Melville's and Whitman's conception...