Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that without differences of opinion we could scarcely have stock exchanges-or horse races. Wall Street, after some months of optimism with reservations, has lately adopted an attitude of pessimism with reservations. Yet nothing particular happens. The price of shares tends to drag, and to decline fractionally, under the notion that since things cannot get better, they are morally bound to get worse...
Bishop Lawrence, in referring to Business, Chemistry and Fine Arts as the three unappreciated factors in American life today, repudiated the widely held notion that business was "essentially worldly or sordid". "As a Bishop with the blood of business stock in me, I claim that essentially the calling of business has in it the elements of faith, character, romance and chivalry, associated with the highest callings...
...from the war supported by 54 countries," Professor Hudson continued, which are representative of every continent, every religion, and every race. During the five years it has operated there have been 29 meetings of the Council of the League and four meetings of the Assembly. It has made the notion of conference a fact. The principle has been established that every one must consent to what every one wishes--no majority rule can exist...
...Modernists are doing a temporarily necessary job in preventing ignorant people from being misled by the preposterous and outworn notion that there is any conflict between true religion and science...
...defrauded, suddenly decides that jail is none too good for him. (He has just reminded her that her dad killed himself because of his dad, and she resents it.) On the verge of his trial, the son threatens to jump his bail, and the mother kills herself, with some notion of thus straightening out everything. She leaves a trust fund to her son to make restitution. Playwright, Abby Merchant, seems optimistic about the young man's reformation, in spite of having moulded his character herself. The audience is pessimistic...