Word: discussed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the Runciman report, "Sudeten extremists" such as Führer Henlein brashly refused to go to Prague to discuss Plan No. 4, and also Henlein's additional demands, instead urged "ex-treme unconstitutional action"-i. e., Sudeten secession-so that by September 13 "the Reich had become the dominant factor in the situation; the dispute was no longer an internal one. It was not part of my function to attempt mediation between Czechoslovakia and Germany...
Influencing people is an art, but even art is measured by scientists' yardsticks nowadays. Last week a psychologist reduced to statistics some surprising facts about the subtle art of changing people's minds through discussion. Dr. Ray H. Simpson, an instructor in Barnard College, made a study of Those Who Influence and Those Who Are Influenced in Discussions.* His guinea pigs were 185 college girls (Dr. Simpson says his findings would probably have been similar if the subjects had been men.) He determined their opinions on many issues, then formed groups of four students each, with differing opinions...
...added: "Of course, I know and you know that there is a Utopian weakness in such a scheme." Asked to comment on the international crisis, former Kaiser Wilhelm, who last week varied his daily routine by visiting an Egyptian exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, refused to discuss "anything less than 2,000 years old." At a stock sale in Belmont, Ohio, Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late President, and Republican candidate for U. S. Senator, auctioned off a calf for 14½? a pound instead of the previous top of 9?. Cracked Candidate Taft: "It just shows...
...increasingly numerous U. S. sympathizers with the Czechs, it was still a gesture. England, France and South America applauded it, Czechoslovakia welcomed it. Upon the one man whom it would do any good to move it had less effect. As the Cabinet convened this week to discuss the deepening European crisis, Adolf Hitler's reply to Washington was a lengthy lecture restating, in more didactic language, his Berlin speech putting the blame flatly on the Czechs...
Lord Wright of Durley, one of the most active figures in recent development of English law, will give a free, public lecture on the Common Law at 5 o'clock this afternoon, at Langdell Hall. He will discuss "Damages and Tort...