Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...page of the Gardiner attack and then tossed it aside. It contained, he said, -'flagrant misstatements, evidently deliberate," and was beneath his notice. He pointed out that the full record of the London negotiations had been offered the Foreign Relations Committee, providing no publicity ensued. He scoffed at its notion of "secret agreements" on the Rapidan...
Contrary to the Britisher's notion of civilizing his subjects, the French thesis is that they must interfere as little as possible with the native life in their colonies. The French go-native system has worked extremely well in Tunis and Morocco, badly in Syria, and has now run into trouble in French Indo-China...
Five years ago Philadelphia's Grand Opera Company was only a notion entertained by three people: Mrs. Joseph Leidy, socialite wife of a Philadelphia doctor, William Carl Hammer, an importer, and his wife, Kathryn O'Gorman Hammer, daughter of a bandmaster and herself an able slide-trombonist. The Hammers interested Mrs. Leidy in a local opera venture; Mrs. Leidy interested her friends who bought boxes. The Hammers became managers, announced six performances for the first season. Mr. Hammer attended to the box-office while Mrs. Hammer persuaded artists to sing on a co-operative basis, borrowed sets...
...unduly psychological in our interpretation of logic. I do not agree with the notion that a proposition may be neither true or false. Though I could not prove that the largest number conceivable is divisible by three, this is either true or false...
...Paris after the War one Louis Moyses, a demobilized soldier, tried his luck in the cafe business. Soldier Moyses had no money, no notion of attracting a smart clientele. He had a sister who, he figured, could be a cashier, a half-brother who could be waiter, a soldier-friend who played the piano. He assembled a few tables and chairs in a room near the Madeleine. With his last few francs he sent out to an epicene for a bottle of cognac and a bottle of whiskey. A third bottle he filled with colored water, then...