Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cartoon digest notion never got out of swaddling clothes, but Disney's imagination had been kindled by Seversky's vivid word pictures of what air war could, and would, be like in the immediate future. He arranged a meeting with Sascha, and the two men set to work to translate the book into film. The resulting Disney-Seversky Victory Through Air Power will open in New York next week, then be distributed nationally by United Artists...
Neither Wings of Destiny nor The Luftwaffe is detailed enough to give readers a clear notion of how the R.A.F. and the German Air Force will compare in the coming battle for Europe. Hauptmann Hermann's book contains sketches of early Nazi airmen, ancient history on how the first building of the Luftwaffe was accomplished in spite of the Reichstag, the liberals, the socialists, the communists and the League of Nations...
...cuff that reaches five inches up the arm was reported by exquisite Lucius Beebe as the latest notion on the proper attire for carving a steak: "Fashioned of gleaming white pique ... the seemingly endless cuff . . . never disappoints its owner by revealing the shirt sleeve proper...
...financiers realize his full value. Not even after his eye-opening visit to Germany in 1935 and his meeting with the brilliant Willy Messerschmitt would the British Government lend him its ear. It was an "eccentric" individualist, Lady Houston, who finally put ?100,000 behind Mitchell's fantastic notion that England desperately needed a plane "faster than anything on earth, tougher than any other fighter, and able to turn on a sixpence...
sportswriters laughed at Wrigley's latest notion. Dignified P. K., they said, would have to hark back to his father's circus stunts to get a crowd to the Cubs' ball park...