Word: notion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the Hoover opposition to modifying Prohibition was based upon a mistaken notion of the meaning of "nullification...
...reported, about the long unratified Mellon-Berenger debt-settlement agreement'. Through Agent Gilbert, Mr. Mellon explained that he wished this matter could be settled before the Mellon term at the Treasury is over; that the U. S. Senate cannot very well ratify until it has some notion that the French Parliament is well disposed. But Mr. Mellon got back no encouragement from M. Poincaré. There was, he learned, no chance of ratification by the present French Parliament. Mr. Mellon continued to rest. For his part, M. Poincaré hoped that the U. S. would wait patiently, in view...
Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...
...courses it will hold, and dismiss the young man with the conviction of a job well done. I recall that the gentleman to whom I was intrusted ushered me into his room in an impressively efficient manner, and abruptly asked me what I was interested in. Having a vague notion that I liked Shaw and Galsworthy and Shakespeare, I murmured 'English.' 'Excellent,' my advisor snapped, 'you must take English 28. Good-day.' Thus was I launched into what might have been four years of study in English literature, without first having any conception of the possibilities of other concentration...
...accompanied the unfurling of the new flag. Misguided agents of the extreme pro-British faction, who wish to continue under the "Union Jack," had still further misguided the Afric blacks into believing the absurd bit of blather that the new flag would mean their enslavement. Fired by this preposterous notion, the natives massed and howled protests against what they called the "coffin flag." Shouting "Away with Slavery!" they tore down the new banner in numerous instances. Meanwhile 100% British Islanders drove through Johannesburg and Cape Town, waving the Union Jack and shouting: "We were born under this flag...