Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood of 333,000 telegrams to Senators and Congressmen. Their notion that Roosevelt was really a Hitler in disguise reached its climax last week when 150 "Paul Reveres" from Chicago, New England and New York journeyed to Washington to demonstrate against Reorganization in person. By this time, the principal excuse for detecting real danger in the bill-the provision whereby the President...
...glance that it was written with Actress Oberon's lipstick. In the country, horses, dogs and gentry chasing across light-bathed landscapes are hunting prints in motion. As scientifically suspect as the theory that the waters of the Liffey make the best stout is the notion that British water develops the best in Technicolor. But whatever the natural aids, Producer Korda's Technicolor is the best...
...editors of Punch, meanwhile, came out with what was intended to be a side-splitting full-page article calculated to impress the English mind with a notion that Czechoslovakia is a funny name, that even the fate of Czechoslovakia is not far from an affair for English mirth, and that as for an Englishman taking up arms to fight for Czechoslovakia-well that, implies Punch, is a simply hilarious idea...
...idea of an explanation for laymen of modern physics and its origins was first suggested by Infeld. But Albert Einstein had been long fondling such a notion, readily agreed. Although he now speaks English quite well, Einstein is still reluctant to write in this new language. So the actual writing was done by Infeld. But it is not simply a ghostwritten job. Their friends, who did not know about the book for some time after it was actually under way, say that it is a "real project of collaboration." The scope, form and content of the book were agreed...
...modern era of Materialism most men believe that the individual life ceases with death; to them Immortality is something that exists apart from the single mind. It was the Industrial Revolution which crystallized the middle-class notion that Work is greater than the Soul and caused the forgetting of personal Immortality. The purpose of Work is to improve the world for posterity; the modern way of life is the identification of self with the Work of the world. The unity of work transcends in importance the labor of the individual. Thus in this period the person cannot become eternal; only...