Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preliminary "leaks" from the investigators in Warsaw and Copenhagen last week may be thus summarized: Local officials were aghast at the idea that a workman & family should occupy four rooms, surprised at the notion that they should want a bath. Local workmen appeared to be content with two rooms per family, accustomed to dropping in at the municipal baths when dirty. In a terminology more European than American the conclusion seemed to be that an office worker or petit bourgeois is about the lowest class of wage earner who might (possibly) or should (perhaps) have a bathroom in his home...
Teacher Sutton: "Well, if your father has such a notion I guess I had better talk to him. I rather hate to though, for he must be an unreasonable sort...
...defense. Secretary Mellon announced: "The rates in the bill as it passed the House a year ago were higher than in the bill recently signed . , . yet business at that time did not take alarm. ... I have canvassed the situation with the Secretary of Commerce, and the notion that this law is going to destroy our foreign trade . . . certainly is without foundation. ... In so far as imports are concerned, foreign nations that do business with us would do well to remember that the all-important factor is the maintenance of the high purchasing power and standard of living of the American...
...have been arranging certain experiments in reference to the notion that gravity . . . may be related . . . to the other powers of matter and proceeded this morning to make them. . . . It was almost with a feeling of awe that I went to work, for if the hope should prove well founded . . . how large may be the new domain of knowledge opened up to the mind...
Sailors cherish an ancient notion-a de-lusion-that, if a ship cannot escape a waterspout by moving out of its path, a shot fired into the column of water will cause it to collapse. Science has no record of this having actually been done, for the good reason that no cannon projectile (unless perhaps a large explosive shell timed exactly) would be big enough to disrupt the enormous vacuum which supports the water column...