Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freedom of Press. If any outsider had the notion that Freedom of the Press was only a well-chewed bone of a few watchdog's like Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick and Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher, the convention proved the contrary. With a few notable exceptions, the rank & file of U. S. publishers genuinely believe that the Administration is capable of imposing censorship, that they scored a momentous victory in forcing into the Newspaper Code a clause reaffirming the Constitutional guarantee of a free Press. Cheered to the rafters was Col. McCormick, chairman...
...Colonial architecture and stalls are fitted with Vita-Glass. Some of the Colonel's equine innovations, however, have been less successful than others. When he heard about streamlining and wind-resistance, he experimented with little hoods to be strapped on his horses' heads. More disastrous was his notion, abetted by an Akron (Ohio) oculist, that horses with defective vision would run better if equipped with glasses. Result was a large bill and one disabled jockey, the rider of the first terrified mount in spectacles. But to Colonel Bradley goes credit for introducing the fibre skullcap, first worn...
...again, that we are taking upon ourselves a very serious burden in such a declaration of policy as we have made. It is very significant that England ha refused to cooperate in a joint statement of policy. Probably a desire to avoid the appearance of a "white bloc," which notion the Japanese patriots would seize upon with characteristic shrewdness moved, England to act as she did. Or, yet more probable, and with characteristic British brilliancy, British foreign policy elected to watch and wait, gently and innocently, on the sidelines. Let the characteristic American frankness get caught with its hand...
...Grandpa" George Lansbury, white-whiskered old Laborite, stared at the ceiling of a London hospital room while the 75-year-old leg he broke last December by falling downstairs healed slowly, painfully. Still buzzing in his head was his noble notion: "Conditions are bad, not men." But last week when George's Son Edgar published a book called My Father, it was of men, not conditions that he spoke. In fact, Son Edgar threw open the door on the bitter meetings of that unhappy Labor Cabinet in which George Lansbury was First Commissioner of Works. In so doing...
Limited in its experiments by the fact that animals are immune to yellow fever, the commission was forced to consider the theory of an eccentric Scottish medic history. who had an unsubstantiated notion that yellow fever was transmitted from human to human by mosquitoes. The commissioners tested Dr. Carlos Finlay's theory on themselves. Dr. Carroll caught yellow jack from one of the Finlay mosquitoes. Dr. Lazear died of it. Even then their experiments were scientifically incomplete. Dr. Reed called for four soldiers to volunteer as human guinea pigs. Two of them got bites from Finlay mosquitoes. The other...