Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contending that the press decrees did not "in any respect alter the fundamental notion of liberty," the Daladier Government insisted that the legislation was necessary to "prevent certain campaigns of suspicious origin tending to weaken the morale of the nation...
...Time For Comedy Behrman (perhaps transferring his own qualms) treats of a writer of comedies who wonders whether he shouldn't be more serious-minded. This beautiful notion is implanted in him by an uplifted, though agreeably carnal, society woman, and involves him in a mess of ideas about immortality and Loyalist Spain. It takes all the skill of the playwright's clever, patient wife (Katharine Cornell) to give his plays, and her life, a happy ending...
...favorite Wall Street notion is that traders in odd lots (less than 100 shares of stock) are always wrong-when they buy, the market goes down; when they sell, it goes up. Last week the first comprehensive survey of odd-lot trading-made by the Brookings Institution under the direction of Dr. Charles 0. Hardy-found that odd-lotters are generally smart enough to buy on declines and sell on advances, but not smart enough to wait for a marked decline or a substantial advance. By buying and selling too soon, they miss the boat on long-term price trends...
...three years Grover Whalen had time to luxuriate among such playthings: he lay ill at home suffering from a heavy cold and a bad case of overwork. Since he became fair president in 1936 he has averaged a 12-to-16-hr. working day-selling hardheaded big businessmen the notion that it would pay them to put $157,000,000 into the Flushing Meadows...
...slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage, John was sobered. "God knows, Sarah," he said, "I love the brats but I'm worried about how to look atter them." Next time he took to drink, Sarah "suddenly took a notion that I could beat the stuffin out of him, and I did. I got a barrel stave and I turned him across the table bench and I blistered his rump...