Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they would learn only trench warfare. He pounded the table, talked as no general had ever before talked to foreign statesmen and soldiers. When they could not budge him, they made appeals behind his back to President Wilson. It was small wonder that General Pershing got the fixed notion that France and Britain were working to control U. S. troops and thus prevent the creation of a U. S. army as a means of reducing U. S. glory in victory and U. S. influence and prestige in peace negotiations...
...later described in books) was the native buffalo. He observed that it was beefy, was more alert- charging buffalo, unlike charging domestic bulls, never close their eyes. Also, the buffalo is less susceptible to diseases than any sort of domestic cow. But it is wholly unmanageable. Therefore, the Hubbard notion: to breed a new kind of cattle, almost as mild as the cow, almost as diseaseless as the buffalo.- As an adjunct to his Rhodesian farm, Mr. Hubbard plans to build a well- equipped laboratory, not for himself but for other scientists. "There are any number of scientific expeditions going...
...November? the next House would be tied at 217, with one Farmer-Laborite. Immediately the Press began to nominate Mrs. Longworth for the place. The daughter of a President, she is smart, politically-minded. Her election would maintain the House's "widow tradition."* But her brother Archie scouted the notion that she would ever accept political office. Besides, most Cincinnati Republicans consider her something of an outsider; they prefer State Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, the late President...
...glorious sky overhead-well, not yet, but we hope, soon!" The flyers who lauded Dr. Kimball were well aware that his service to them was no simple business of glancing at the sky, reading a barometer and delivering a glib verdict of "go" or "stay." He dislikes the notion that he issues categorical decisions, or that he functions as an official transatlantic ship despatcher. All that he will undertake is to inform a waiting flyer when he may expect "reasonably favorable conditions" on his projected course. And that alone means long, laborious work for Dr. Kimball in the Weather Bureau...
Quick to get facts, Northfield's President Elliott Speer was the first to ascertain that the estate had been grossly over-estimated in popular notion, that it would come to scarcely more than $30,000,000 and that the residue, to be divided on a percentage basis, might not be more than $20,000,000. Thus, Northfield's share would be only $300,000 and Nanking's about $3,500,000. Even so, it was a huge sum for a theological seminary in China (raising deep questions as to its proper use); but it was not the golden vision which...