Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of medicine. Last year the University of Chicago hospitals and clinics lost $831,000. Under the merger, Chicago would turn over its practical work to the Presbyterian Hospital and, taking over Northwestern's ablest men, would concentrate on research. This would conform to the Rockefeller notion of emphasis on research...
Arose the loudest hubbub in years at a meeting presided over by Il Duce. Every member of the Council seemed to have his own notion of how to proceed. Il Duce encouraged all to spout their ideas, only ringing his bell when the clamor grew too great. ''This meeting," said one of the Dictator's aides, "is the first of a series at which will be worked out the final economic organization of the Corporative State...
That Dictators Hitler and Mussolini might conceivably join forces to march through Switzerland in a future war against France was the excited notion of several Swiss newsorgans last week. Brisk old President Edmund Schulthess hastened to reassure his countrymen last week at leafy, lion-famed Lucerne. "The faith that other nations had in our military equipment in 1914 saved us from becoming involved in the World War," said he. "Today dark clouds are again arising. We shall keep our army prepared for the field...
Other people believed in Arthur Joseph Morris and the "hybrid and mongrel" notion of banking became the Morris Plan banks in 150 U. S. cities. Founded on a desire to provide the laboring man with a better source of credit than the fleecing loan shark, the Morris Plan is today dignified by the name "industrial banking." Morris Plan Banks ("companies" in some states where only an orthodox bank may use the word) make loans of $50 to $5,000 largely on character, earning power and two indorsements - a type of business which many commercial banks find un profitable. Some...
...used the same themes over and over again, elaborating on them with the imagination of a genius. Brahms never married, never defied convention as did the overromanticized Rich ard Wagner. But he was no ascetic. His mother bred in him an Oedipus complex which never quite squared with the notion of women that he got while playing the piano as a boy in the red-light district of Hamburg. Brahms patronized brothels all his life, a fact never before printed. He loved several women but he was shy of them, loved his bachelor freedom more. In Vienna where he lived...