Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...details (TIME, Nov. 19 et seq.). Tax reduction was the one suit which politicians had not expected to play. They were as startled as auction bridge players hearing a bid of nullo. What surprised them at first was the avidity with which the public took to the notion of tax reduction. The Congressmen, who were at first noncommittally opposed, soon turned lukewarm, later...
...discussing mergers and consolidations with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Their deliberations have naturally been in secret, and few echoes have passed the closed doors to the eager financial reporters outside. Accordingly, fantastic rumors of all sorts have gained space and credence. Every financial editor has had his own pet notion of how the merging of the Eastern roads ought to be done...
...Bucharin is just as much of a booby as Stalin; he does not possess the slightest notion of dialectics, but he delights in writing, although he does it so badly...
...some share in Shelley's memory. He lived and died among us. Prometheus has, I suppose haunted most sculptors. What fitter monument could Shelley have than Prometheus Unbound, bearing the torch of freedom? The port needs a lighthouse. The mountains close at hand furnish the marble. The primary notion was that of a memorial to the poet but it is now coupled with that of a symbol of the friendship between the two nations, of old date in spite of passing differences, and we have not forgotten that we had England's sympathy during our time of struggle...
...greatest railroad mergers. The system will include Nickel Plate, Erie, Clover Leaf, Pere Marquette and Chesapeake & Ohio, and the coming consolidation will necessitate a complex exchange of securities, details of which are probably not alto- gether settled in even the Van Sweringens' minds. Probably the most definite notion of the Greater Nickel Plate System that is to be, at present exists out in the Atlantic Ocean, under the square-topped derby hat of an elderly banker. A great many "financial leaders" had a hand in wrecking Erie. It has taken George F. Baker to restore it to prosperity...