Word: notion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idiotic rubbish to talk of people protecting their lives with a pistol. A notion seems to be abroad in the land that the people have rights to protect themselves and must have a revolver to do so. We ought to ask the chiefs of police here if they know of a single case in which a citizen was helped in an encounter with a gunman by being armed himself...
...both in character and education." Perhaps seventy-five per cent of those with only secondary school education were considered "seriously deficient in general education and general background." The motive for choice of the law by the latter was generally hope of increased salary. Few of them had any coherent notion of American or English history. One applicant was of the opinion that Magna Carta was a naval expedition...
...might sigh, are never allowed to forget that they once were born. That the French are willing to hear him again with honor would hardly yield much gratification to one who would have every right to consider it only their loss if they didn't. Nevertheless in scouting the notion that there is the slightest connection between musical scores and political treaties, Beethoven in Valhalla might have forgotten something about Beethoven in Vienna. Perhaps during the celebration the capital of France will hear a certain symphony once dedicated to the Emperor of the French. Swept by enthusiasm for the ideals...
...Because of their ingrained notion that they are of a different breed and therefore should be treated differently from the non-college workers...
...another inventor of Bologna, Italy, who lived centuries before Guglielmo Marconi. This wight was a butcher, too fat to fight but keenly alive to the tortures of hunger which soldiers often suffer. As the warriors of Bologna prepared one time to sally forth against the Milanese, he conceived the notion of supplying many of them with chopped beef, pork and veal, seasoned and stuffed tightly into the intestinal tubing of a pig. He showed them how they might wind this provender about their necks or waists to carry it easily; how they might tie and cut it in short lengths...