Word: notional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which lie conceives, so Professor Binkley of Smith College reports, as never really having fallen at all but merely experiencing a temporary lapse. The great Roman of modern times, when he is not busy dodging the bullets of eight year old would-be assassins, is occupied not with idealistic notion about a place in the sun but with the modest and practical scheme of making the Mediterranean an Italian lake. The ways and means is this new war--Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Albania against Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Belgium, and France...
Point No. 1 raised against Nominee Roberts was the notion that he opposed Prohibition. In 1923 he made a speech in New York which caused Dry Senators to grumble menacingly. Excerpt...
Would so poetical, peace-loving a gentleman ever order a "third degree?" The mere notion of such a thing profoundly shocked the Prime Minister's friends last week, but he did give certain orders. As a result ten Scotland Yard detectives entered at about midnight the London home of Citizen John T. Kirk. Frightened Mrs. Kirk saw her husband grilled by the ten, grew frantic while he stubbornly refused to tell something the Prime Minister wished to know, finally became hysterical and by her pleading broke down the resistance of Citizen Kirk, who then told...
...conclusion reached by Dr. & Mrs. Benedict was that the popular notion that the calory demand of the brain is proportionate to its labor, is false. An oyster cracker or a half-peanut would sustain Albert Einstein's brain while doing intensive work on his field equations for one hour, the same number of calories would furnish a parlor maid only energy enough to dust a desk for five minutes...
...insult to every subscriber and an outrage to public decency; and I have a mighty good notion to tell you that you need not send another copy of your otherwise good magazine to me. I think the reputation of your publication has dropped at least no per cent...