Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 29, 1933 William Randolph Hearst was 70. Hearst executives and empoyes were obliged to think of him as an old man. Since he rarely budged from his Enchanted Hill in California never showed himself outside his home state the notion grew that he was all but doddering. Whenever his name arose in Hearst offices, talk was apt to turn to his imminent collapse and the burning question is who would succeed to control of his publishing domain...
...advertising's comparatively modest ground floor in 1913, worked at it off and on for 19 years, says his first three days on the job taught him "all that any bright young man needed to know about the mysteries of advertising copy-writing." Scoffing at the notion that advertising is an art, he says: "If any genuine creation goes on in advertising agencies I have never seen it. . . . By and large there is no such thing as art in advertising any more than there is such a thing as advertising literature." In the same breath he admits that "advertising...
...position of Freshman proctor is much sought after, largely because of a prevailing but fallacious notion that it affords a soft berth with free bed and board and no arduous routine duties attached. However, those who are in a position to recall incidents of their supposedly halcyon freshman days in the Yard, will recall that the duties of the office, like Bacon's intellect, take all the world of human affairs as their province. The number of embarrassing incidents such as the recent affaire Wigglesworth, in which three Freshmen were caught in the toils of the law for throwing milkbottles...
...return and quick imprisonment of its runaway utilities magnate, has failed to re-elect the State's attorney who brought him back. There was certainly no triumphal return, with Samuel Insull dragging behind a chariot, nor was there an angry crowd at the station or the jail. The general notion is that Mr. Insull is a poor, infirm old fugitive whom the law is making into a scapegoat. Pity wells up all over the Windy City. Yet it was Chicago, not the law, which made the man poor by driving him away from his pile, which made him infirm...
Author Mumford denies that the Machine Age began with the harnessing of steam, points out that "the modern machine age cannot be understood except in terms of a very long and diverse preparation. The notion that a handful of British inventors suddenly made the wheels hum in the eighteenth century is too crude even to dish up as a fairy tale to children." The real machine age, which he says has been with us 1,000 years, Mumford divides into three overlapping, interpenetrating phases: eotechnic, paleotechnic, neotechnic...