Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paternity that they had schizophrenic breakdowns. Dr. Reider thinks that the father's nervousness-and the mother's troubles, too, of course-would be diminished if the status of illegitimacy were corrected by uniform law. Under present U.S. law, says he, the male tends to get the notion that the important thing is not to get caught. If he becomes a father, he can rationalize his act by saying that he was hooked by the machinations of a scheming woman. In Sweden, where the state is concerned only with the father's responsibility to contribute...
Fictional characters like Poe's stealthy stabber have given many a whodunit fan the notion that an insane murderer is "fiendishly clever" in planning and executing his crimes. Poppycock, say two psychiatric authorities in a recent issue of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology...
When P.H.S. "detectives" finally found Mrs. LeBar (she had flown on to Maine, and fortunately had been vaccinated), she had only a hazy notion of the bus's route, remembered that it had stopped at Laredo, Dallas, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. Checking bus routes, the investigators figured that LeBar probably also stopped off at San Antonio, Tulsa, Joplin, Indianapolis...
...most Americans had no more idea that there is a problem of history than that there is a problem of evil. And they had been so busy creating the world's first great technology that they had little more notion than the Indians they had supplanted what a civilization is or what to do with...
Dwelling mostly on material written since the close of the war, the 30-year old English A instructor termed himself a "social poet," and said that he subscribes to the notion that a poet should write so as to be understood...