Word: notion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absorbed terrific punishment, thus refuting the notion that flat tops are hopelessly vulnerable...
Little Girls, Big Ships. Already discarded by military airmen is the notion that women airmen are good only for flying light craft like Piper Cubs and Aeroncas. Featured airwomen like Jackie Cochran long ago kicked the theory on the shins by flying such "hot" craft as the Seversky P-35, the Lockheed Hudson (one of which she helped push across the Atlantic). The WAFS' new graduates had proved it in the mass. They had flown everything from grasshoppers to snappy two-engined Cessna...
...newfangled notion that public debt can go on growing forever without doing any harm got a sock on the chin last week. The blow was aimed primarily at Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. and Professor Alvin H. Hansen, special economic adviser to Federal Reserve System, whose articles have appeared in FORTUNE. Peripheral victim: the National Resources Planning Board...
This concept introduces a wholly new notion of what true governmental economy means. True economy in government expenditures means the elimination of waste and inefficiency. It does not mean the reduction of expenditures to the lowest possible level--a policy which would result in wholly inadequate social services of all kinds...
Diapers Must Go On. A steady campaign against industrial nurseries is carried on by most U.S. welfare workers and by Government agencies. They resent the widespread notion that women who stay home to care for children are slackers. "Education is a lifelong affair, but, especially for the very young, that does not mean scrapping a mother's care," says Acting Secretary Edna M. Geissler of the Child Care Section of New York City's Welfare Council. "I wish we could convince mothers of youngsters that their job at home is as patriotic as any in a factory...