Word: notion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forever doomed to a ''minimum subsistence wage.'' Karl Marx said, in effect: ''Sheep of all countries, unite! Together we shall bring about the Revolution of the sheep and . . . eat the wolves.'' Quite apart from the typical European unrealism of this notion, Bruckberger points out, what the Russian people did, in reality, was to trade one set of wolves for an even more ravenous lot. In a fascinating confrontation of personalities and social aims, Bruckberger argues that Henry Ford was a greater revolutionary than Karl Marx...
...Quiet Place. This discovery gave a wholly new look to theories about the circulation of the Atlantic. The long-established notion of nearly stagnant ocean depths is now doubtful. Photographs taken of the bottom show ripple marks much like those caused by tidal currents on bathing beaches. Ocean basins with ripple marks on their bottoms must have been stirred by currents at some time in their past, and they may be stirred still...
Unless they are fertilized by currents from colder areas, tropical seas are largely sterile. Since the richest harvests of the sea derive from bottom water rising to the surface, oceanographers have long had the notion of creating artificial upwelling in sterile parts of the ocean. One possibility is a nuclear reactor sitting on the bottom and slightly warming the water around it. The warmed water will rise, carrying nutrients to the surface and turning clear water, admired only by tourists, into rich, turbid pastures. Another way would be to pump deep water into some closed area, such as a Pacific...
...Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper theme: love of God v. love of mankind...
...outlying New England farms, and the colonial defenders had done little to stop the raids. In the summer of '55 Rogers' New Hampshire unit was attached to an offensive aimed at Crown Point on Lake Champlain. The British colonials had struck no effective blow, had no notion of enemy strength. Rogers volunteered for missions into the wilderness, returned with the required intelligence-and news that his party had shot up a French canoe. It was the first offensive action of a sorry campaign...