Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iowa, he told 200 Iowa newspapermen that the differences in the Republican party were minor. Said he: "There has been some misconception of what is Republican opinion. All day, beginning at breakfast, I have talked with Republicans. I have not talked with any Republican who has any notion that the party should represent narrow nationalism, economic toryism, or abandonment of any social advances...
What the returning soldiers think or fail to think about religion will determine to a large extent the human and social climate of the postwar world. That is why many people snatch so eagerly at the notion that "there are no atheists in the foxholes." But recently two authoritative realists, Dr. Daniel A. Poling, World's Christian Endeavor Union president, and Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, stated flatly (TIME, Jan. 3; Jan. 31) that soldiers are scarcely thinking about religion at all. Last week a Jesuit chaplain (whose name was with held) corroborated their report...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant dismissed the notion of teaching the humanities to "any considerable portion" of the 10,000,000 veterans. Since returned soldiers "will be in a hurry," Harvard will function all year round. Veterans uninterested in or inept at "book learning" may get a year of vocational training leading to industrial jobs...
...enthusiasts for harpsichord music are a small, fervent, growing body. John Challis is probably the only man in the world who, despite war, continues to manufacture the instrument.* Like most people interested in harpsichords, he is irritated by the lay notion that the instrument is a sort of Pleistocene piano. The true ancestor of the piano is not the harpsichord but the dulcimer, a more primitive stringed instrument played like a xylophone, with little hammers held in the hands. The harpsichord's strings are not hammered but plucked with quills or leather plectra (picks...
Ruth Earnshaw, Philadelphia-born wife of Professor Lo Chuan-fang: "Out here we sometimes indulge in the notion that we college teachers are the forgotten men and women of the war. Those of us who feel that the reasons for which we entered the profession are still valid are deter mined to stick it out. . . . We know that China's war is not solely against the Japa ese; it is almost equally against ignorance and poverty, and our battle on the education front will go on long after the last shot is fired at the invader." Professor Lo (University...