Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reconsidered by the Committee of Housemasters last week, and the consensus was that it should be lifted. With the return of several members not available for the original meeting, approval for the move was secured, and the official announcement was made yesterday...
...realized that in the past six months the U.S. program of postwar aid to its allies had lost ground. But the informed consensus was not yet ready to agree with the gloomy hunch of Britain's Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps. Last week at Birmingham he said: "It looks as though Congress might turn down the loan...
...Lord Mayor brought two ripe yellow bananas back with him to the town hall, and a few lucky kids did some dockside sampling. Consensus: "Better than pears." One twelve-year-old's joyful munching was recorded on the spot...
...exchanged a dozen formal messages and many more informal items. For one thing, the Japs had to have more time to start envoys on the way to Manila, where they would receive MacArthur's terms; and besides, they wanted him to spell everything out twice for "clarification." The consensus was that the Japs were stalling, and MacArthur curtly cut them off: "The directive from this headquarters is clear and explicit and is to be complied with without further delay...
...principles are essential to a free people, more & more educators today are apprehensive that Jeffersonian specialism has run away with the show. But well aware that flight from the technological facts of modern life is impossible, few have urged drastic changes. Nor has Harvard, which comes close to the consensus in urging emphasis on a compulsory "core" of general subjects...