Word: concensus
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According to a concensus of opinion among the graduate students and research workers in the Converse Chemical laboratory. President elect Conant took a continual and enthusiastic interest in the work of each of his subordinates...
...list of balloters will be sent to the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council where they will be combined with similar lists from many colleges throughout the country. The whole will be presented to President Roosevelt in the form of a huge petition which will reflect the concensus of opinion of college men and women...
According to the general concensus of opinion of the haberdashers on the Square, Harvard men lack the courage to venture forth in Old Dame Fashion's latest. This, it was agreed, accounted for the supremacy of Princeton and Yale over Harvard when it comes to setting the styles. Harvard is not style conscious, the Knights of the Garter conceded, and her sons scoff at the new and seemingly "race-trackish" models in clothes, only to adhere to them a year or so later...
According to a statement by Sullivan, "the concensus of opinion of the Advisory Committee on Class Day was that Class Day last year had been very successful, but that the Stadium exercises might benefit by improvement and, perhaps, some innovations...
When asked about the view prevalent in Iceland on the discovery of America by Leif Ericson about the year 1000. Professor Nordal said that there was no doubt about the fact that Leif Ericson did reach the North American Continent, and that the general concensus of opinion in Iceland seems to be that he got as far South as Massachusetts in the course of his wanderings...