Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ought to stand the unemployed up and shoot them or let them starve as our financial interests now blandly permit. 2) Most people don't know yet there are enough goods for them to live in comfort. The schools never gave us any notion that with proper organization we could have all we want. 3) There must be national control of industry and means of life...
...found a refuge in American universities and colleges. This will confirm the opinion long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron broom of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler has swept out of their native lands. New York Times...
...successful Socialism in the U. S. Essentially a political body whose commissioners are appointed by the Governors of New York and New Jersey, it has through its building and operation of tunnels (Holland), bridges (George Washington, Bayonne, Goethals, Outerbridge) and terminals (Manhattan's Inland), thoroughly scotched the notion that public business cannot be run with the profitable efficiency of private business. Among the many bodies inspired by the Port Authority's record not the least is President Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority...
TIME is grateful to have a false notion disposed of once...
...been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play with...