Word: concensus
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That's the concensus of Subscribers Walter Chase (news editor), Richard Washington (federal reporter) and myself of the St. Paul Daily News staff...
...Polled 3 to 1 in favor of unbobbed hair for women in a straw vote decorously conducted by the Conservative Evening Standard. In opposing the concensus of his fellow peers, William Frederick Le- Poer-Trench, Earl of Clancarty doggerelled...
...issue of the moment is the proposed internal reorganization of the university, the central idea of which is the establishment of a Third College. For there seems to be among the faculty, the alumni and the undergraduate body a concensus that a fundamental change is imminent in not only the administrative machinery but in the purpose and method of Yale education. This feeling is the result of the sound observation of the above groups regarding some of the evils which not only threaten that university but have attached themselves to all institutions of higher education...
...concensus of opinion, however among all the Vermont players was that the rest of the line did not nearly measure up to that of Columbia, whom the invaders had played the week before, and that the University line played more like "a bunch of school kids" than any thing else. "Pratt and Turner," as one of the brawny Vermonters remarked, "weren't nearly what they were cracked up to be. Pratt looked pretty good but he played too high on the defense...
...from the Princetonian to set itself up as dramatic arbiter whose opinion is the sine qua non of theatrical criticism, but a four-to-one preference one way or another is certainly the essence of standardization. And when an aethetic concensus is in favor of the inartistic--or let us say, the hackneyed--deus ex machina as opposed to the more logical and, therefore from a dramatic standopint, the more artistic unhappy ending--it is time to do something beyond complimenting ourselves...