Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether Japan has a definite foreign policy!" screamed Mr. Ashida, well knowing that he may be assassinated for his rashness. "The public is growing fearful that we are being dragged blindly by the Army in an uncharted, pitch-black abyss. I appeal to the War Minister to forsake the notion that the Japanese Army is almighty...
They want evaluation, so that the facts will fit together and mean something." Contrary to popular notion, neither Kiplinger nor any other reputable letter service deals in "confidential" information because very little confidential information is available. Kiplinger employs nine full-time staff men who have found that the wisest men in Washington on legislative prospects and administrative policies are lobbyists. They scrupulously canvass the most potent spokesmen on both sides, take time to gauge the political force behind each, check it, make their forecasts. Editor Kiplinger keeps score on right & wrong guesses, computes his staff's average 85% right...
...patient who thinks he is Shakespeare (Geoffrey Kerr), leader of the Little Theatre movement within the walls, who starts the eminent theatricians on their collaboration. Pirandello, the metaphysician jumps at the notion. If these people think they are respectively Eve, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Menelaus, Marc Antony and Octavius, then they must be. And it will be a good thing for G. B. S., he wryly points out, to get an accurate picture of historical characterizations for once. Unruffled, Shaw agrees to join the venture if he can write in a scene, well prefaced, showing the evils of vivisection...
Last week the student council of Northwestern University reported unfavorably on a proposal to embrace the honor system. Midwestern students are not yet ready for it, said Councilman Hollis Peck, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak. "They're a motley crew, without the faintest notion of what honor is in respect to school work. At the University of Virginia the student body follows the honor system successfully, for Virginians are born gentlemen. Princeton and other eastern schools also have students of integrity who respect the honor system...
Among the first to challenge the article was The New Republic: "[It is] almost a world's record for bad thinking and economic misinformation. It is the quaint notion of Mr. Blythe and the Saturday Evening Post that foreign trade consists exclusively of foreigners selling goods here and taking our money away, as its cartoons show us, in bales. . . . Have these gentlemen 'any suggestions as to how foreigners shall pay for the goods they buy from us?" That, most responsible economists agree, is the biggest flaw in "Buy American." Even last year the U. S. exported about...