Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Problem No. 14 over, the two fleets stood into San Francisco where their weary crews were given shore leave. Though officially neither side won or lost, the consensus was a repulse of Black by Blue on the theory that a light sea force, though preponderant in the air, could not effectively stand up against the defensive fire of battleships...
Although the Indians have had a much harder early season schedule than Coach Casey's men, the general consensus of opinion grants that Hageman and his teammates have shown an unusual scoring punch thus far, and Dartmouth is hampered by having an entirely new and different offensive this year, built around Pop Warner's Stanford shifts, to which the Indian players have had some difficulty acclimating themselves...
...with a 45-min. speech. Then each guest was asked to give his remedies for the nation's ills, beginning with Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution who illustrated his remarks with a smoking-compartment story about a young man in a lingerie shop. The publishers' consensus was that the President should be more firm with Congress. Aggrievedly President Hoover replied that when he had attempted to reprimand Congress he was not only jumped on by Congress but by the publishers. At this point someone brought up the real business of the evening, suggested that a hand-raising...
...elected and appointed men who sit in the Council meetings are even more responsible to the student body of which they form a part. A resolution honestly arrived at by the Council, secretly referred to the governing board, rejected and hence killed with them, may actually represent the general consensus of opinion among students. If the Council's resolutions were brought to the notice of the student body through publication, as well as to the governing boards, the representative character of the group would be fulfilled. At present, unless the Council's decision meets the approval of the governing boards...
...newshawks looked temporarily baffled, then went out and began writing stories about who would succeed Snorkey as gang chief. Consensus was that it would be cocky, sleek-haired Hymie Levin, not his quieter lieutenant, Murray Humphries. Editor Jack Leach of The Daily Northwestern, student paper at Northwestern University, published an editorial entitled "Get This, Capone," warning Snorkey not to attend any more football games...