Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leave the church and go off in the woods to pray. ... He talked mighty sweet about how he hated to leave her home by herself and all like that, but his tongue fumbled so it could not talk sweet enough to fool her. She had a good notion about where he spent every God's night he was gone...
...pituitary gland probably the worst offender of the two. It is also our idea that carbohydrate metabolism is controlled by a balanced mechanism consisting of the pancreas, the pituitary and the adrenals. . . . This flatly contradicts the orthodox theory and treatment now commonly used, which is based on the opposite notion that diabetes is caused by a deficiency of gland secretions in the pancreas, thereby causing a fatal increase in the normal sugar content of the blood."-Dr. James Harry Button, Chicago endocrinologist-. in the Illinois Medical Journal last week. What, then, was more simple, if highly hazardous, than to shoot...
...must record the further adventures of our new President at the many receptions given in his honor. We once gave out the notion that he was shy, but we now think that he has had shyness thrust upon him. Several nights ago the "haute monde" of Back Bay tendered him a reception at Mrs. Hank Gardiner's Palace, Fenway Court. Droves of guests arrived, long before Mr. Conant, and gave their names to the list-checker at the door. Finally a lank man in spectacles appeared at the door, walking towards the dazzling show. He was quickly stopped...
...inclined to feel that any official sanction of this sort of economy would be a sad reflection on the intellectual courage of those who manage Harvard University. For the premises upon which the Tutorial system was originally founded leave no room for this notion of subordination. Those premises are essentially this; that the University had fostered too long the acquisition of knowledge for credit's sake, that ideally the University should encourage real intellectual interests. To date, the tutorial system has been a systematically discouraged attempt to attain the ideal. It has been hedged on every side...
...have been relatively unimportant. As it was, Conservative Mr. Ritchie found himself in the same boat with Conservative Mr. Hoover, whom he had often criticized. So completely had a nation-wide fog of emotion obliterated the channels of logic that the tabloid New York Daily News observed: "Our own notion is that it is another chapter in the world-old story of the fight between the Haves and the Havenots. We think the plebeians and the patricians, the Cavaliers and the Roundheads, the nobles and the sans-culottes, are at it again today...