Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee said its polls of student opinion showed great dissatisfaction with the lecture system. "It is by definition a one-way process," the report states, whose "one justification . . . is that it permits many students to come under the spell . . . of a great teacher...
...Three years ago I made a speech at Fulton . . . Many people here and in my own country were startled and even shocked by what I said . . . Today there is a very different climate of opinion . . . We have the famous Marshall aid, the new unity in Western Europe, and now the Atlantic pact. . . No one could have brought about these immense changes . .. . but for the astounding policy of the Russian Soviet government. We may well ask, 'Why have they deliberately acted for three long years so as to unite the free world against them...
...antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans do. He antagonized a lot of Italians by telling them that land reform was bad because it would decrease production. This, he said, was just his personal opinion; Italians had a hard time distinguishing between Zellerbach, the person, and Zellerbach, the ECAdministrator...
Physicist Robley D. Evans, another fruit-fly expert, concluded that hereditary abnormalities are unlikely if a small fraction of the population suffers moderate radiation exposure. Acting as an informal referee, Dr. Shields Warren, the A.E.C.'s top radiation expert, sided with Evans but called it "a matter of opinion...
...Susceptible." The main facts of Shaw's life are already well-known-though, in Shaw's crusty opinion, most of them are scarcely worth knowing. "I am not at all interesting biographically. I have never killed anybody . . . Things have not happened to me: on the contrary it is I who have happened to them...