Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consensus of ordinary news despatches was that Tuan's troops had deserted him because he had embezzled 500,000 taels ($350,000) due them as pay; and that Taso Kun had been reinstated as "President under Super-Tuchun...
What may be called the consensus of suspicion favored Mussolini as the villain of the piece last week.** Conservative observers were not so sure. Brazil is far from Europe. It is most convenient to all the Great Powers that a nation so far from Europe can now be loaded with the whole cargo of official blame...
...consider briefly those books which now seem interesting, worth reading or examining. I don't pretend to have read all the books I shall mention, and whatever hasty opinions of them I give are formed merely from what I've read in or about them, or from an undigested consensus of the remarks of other people. As my list is made up almost wholly from memory, it doubtless omits many books of great merit; includes several that are trivial because of some personal bias; and possibly omits several of importance for the same reason. With this apology ended, I shall...
Meanwhile journalistic conjecture cast about for the most likely representatives at the conferences. The consensus of opinion for the preliminary conference seemed to be Hugh Gibson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland; for the disarmament conference (if attended): Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes, Oscar W. Underwood, Frank B. Kellogg, William E. Borah, Herbert C. Hoover...
...consensus of opinion indicates that the new motor will have a single sleeve-valve engine. This engine was perfected in Scotland, and has been widely used in the "Argyll" car abroad. Louis Chevrolet, automobile builder, has recently been trying it out with a view to adapting...