Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Oar. The scion of a modest Gooderham inheritance was sent to a primary boarding school in Pomfret, Conn., then to Groton, which left another mark: he learned that he was of the elite, chosen and trained to serve, and to solve problems. With the notion of getting closer to the world, young Dean undertook a romantic, singlehanded journey into the Canadian north woods as cook and handyman with a surveying gang...
Womb of Death. Looking far ahead, the Air Force likes the notion of a guided missile, an "uninhabited" aircraft, probably rocket-driven, to arch from continent to continent under remote control. No effective guided missiles are yet in existence, but Army, Navy, Air Force and the Research and Development Board are working hard-and optimistically-to perfect them. Last week they made a joint request of Congress for a Long Range Proving Ground. During 1949, said Air Force General Muir S. Fairchild, the U.S. will have a 500-mile missile ready for testing, with no place to test...
Wright explained that the emphasis on English composition will not be lessened; freshmen will write more than they do now, but instead of the usual English A topics, writing will be concerned with actual course work. The philosophy behind this change is to "end the notion that form exists for composition courses alone," Wright stated...
Citing President Conant's last annual report, Aiken said last night, "The whole notion of a free university is that of a self-regulating corporate body." He maintained that the action of president Allen in the dismissal of English professor Joseph Butterworth and Herbert Phillips of the Philosophy Department, over the findings of fellow faculty members, violated that concept, and made it impossible for him to teach there...
...Israel last week, 21 separate parties were campaigning for seats in the new Assembly, among them a Party of the Partyless Orthodox Women. (Orthodox Jews in Israel had objected to the revolutionary notion of women mixing in politics...