Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WHEN TIME [JAN. 21] ARRIVED WITH SAM MITCHELL'S LETTER, SAYING THE OREGONIAN ENGAGES IN REACTIONARY SNIPING, THE OREGONIAN'S LEADING EDITORIAL WAS AN UNQUALIFIED ENDORSEMENT OF ROOSEVELT'S SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM. WHEN THE OREGONIAN FIGHTS IT ATTACKS, DOES NOT SNIPE. AS FOR MITCHELL'S NOTION ABOUT WANING PRESTIGE, THE BEST TEST IS CIRCULATION, WHICH WITH US HAS GROWN STEADILY FROM A DEPRESSION LOW OF 92,000-PLUS TWO YEARS AGO TO AN AVERAGE OF 101,000-PLUS FOR YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30 AND 105,000-PLUS AS OF TODAY...
...maybe the notion that conversation isn't so good as it used to be is just a superstition. Maybe conversation never was so good as it used to be. People as they grow older often grow to think that nothing is quite so good as it used to be--motoring isn't so good as buggy-riding, the winters aren't so cold, the summers aren't so pleasant, the statesmen aren't so intelligent, the politicians aren't so honest, the apples aren't so red and the goose doesn't hang so high. Worcester Telegram...
...exhibiting the baby at the window, Nurse Gow and Mrs. Lindbergh paraded the fact to any kidnapper lurking in the neighborhood that the child was in the house, at the same time giving the snatcher a good notion of the nursery's location. The prosecution plans to bring witnesses to the stand who will swear they saw Hauptmann lurking in the neighborhood...
With Irene, who has just had her 16th birthday, it is different. She likes Sir John well enough but the notion of his sharing her mother's bed fills her with repugnance and horror. Irene has been deluded into believing that her mother's first marriage was a happy one. When Sir John and Mrs. Lawrence go off to be wed at his country place. Irene slips out into the February night to drown herself in the Thames. She changes her mind but almost freezes to death in the process. It takes the combined reasoning of Sir John, her frantic...
...case went to the U. S. Supreme Court which (Holmes & McKenna dissenting) upheld the Associated Press. That decision, the Press has fondly believed, established for all time its property right to news. Last week a Federal district judge in Seattle, sitting in an obscure case, rudely upset that cherished notion...