Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innovating President followed up this gesture by legally instituting a new festival known as Communications Day. His notion of celebrating it was to cancel all public communications by giving telephone, telegraph and postal workers a holiday...
...hurling the charge that Premier Blum had told Havas they could take their choice: either M. Guimier must resign from Havas, or the Havas advertising agency must be unmerged and separated from the Havas news service. How the Premier of the French Republic ever came to have the notion that it is his right to face French journalistic organizations with such alternatives was this week the burning question. Alluding to the fact that the Premier is a Jew, the Royalist newsorgan Action Française blustered, "Can't we even print that Blum has been circumcized...
...refusing to find evidences of influence or unfitness on the part of the testatrix, it seems probable that the University will receive between 30% and 40% of the estate, that is, between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Judge Sheridan said in part: "There is a vicious notion prevalent that any will not acceptable to the testator's next of kin may be broken in the courts upon very frivolous grounds". Since in the great majority of cases the superior court upholds the decision of the lower, the University would seem to be in line for a large...
...Argonne offensive with a hole in his neck and a piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...
Included among the many previous and much-disputed suggestions for utilization of this available University floorspace was one for the creation of a beer garden to rival Eliot House's night lunch and a waggish notion that "Illuminated students be hung out for decoration...