shootingstar
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STAGE MANAGER:
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Over there are some Civil War veterans. Iron flags on their graves . . . New Hampshire boys . . . had a notion that the Union ought to be kept together, though they'd never seen more than fifty miles of it themselves. All they knew was the name, friends - the United States of America. The United States of America. And they went and died about it.
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(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Act III)
What do you take . . . had a notion . . . to mean in this context?
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Over there are some Civil War veterans. Iron flags on their graves . . . New Hampshire boys . . . had a notion that the Union ought to be kept together, though they'd never seen more than fifty miles of it themselves. All they knew was the name, friends - the United States of America. The United States of America. And they went and died about it.
. . .
(Thornton Wilder, Our Town, Act III)
What do you take . . . had a notion . . . to mean in this context?