Word: notion
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Among the causes of male "sterility" (i.e., subnormal sperm production): mumps (after puberty), gonorrhea, malaria, hot baths, exposure to X rays and other atomic radiation. The chief cause of female sterility is blocked tubes. But contrary to popular notion, absolute sterility is rare. Failure to conceive is often due to fatigue, overweight, nervous strain, emotional tension between husband & wife, or simply too infrequent sexual relations. On more than one occasion, the Cleveland doctors have even discovered patients who were more innocent than Adam...
Many a youthful World War II veteran, bedeviled by a social conscience, threw up his hands in horror at the notion of joining the stuffy, conservative American Legion, trooped over to the American Veterans Committee instead. Not so one group of reform-minded Manhattan newspapermen. Last spring they organized the Duncan-Paris Post (named for two war casualties from the staff of Yank). They elected left-wing Marion ("See Here, Private") Hargrove as their first commander, impertinently began to heckle their Legion elders...
...within the university, the atmosphere is different. One of the best things about prewar Harvard was its sense of leisure, the conception of "education over the breakfast table," the notion that by the unhurried exchange of good conversation and ideas with his fellows a man could learn much that he would never get out of books. Now Cambridge is gripped by urgency, a hurried and un-Harvardlike anxiety to make up for lost time...
Tall, brown-haired Dr. Ivanissevich, who had been Peron's personal physician before becoming a diplomat, made it plain that this notion had been only a notion. "You should know," he said, "through the lips of a man who possesses the singular merit of never having lied, the truth regarding the Argentine Republic...
...milestone: few Negroes had ever before sung leading operatic roles with white companies. Most great U.S. companies, like the Metropolitan Opera, had never thought twice about such a possibility; "no suitable roles" had long been their stock dismissal of the notion...