Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Student opinion throughout the college still remained heavily in favor of the defendant and his companions...
Science has long approved of artificial insemination, Karl Sax, professor of Botany, and director of the Arnold Arboretum, said when asked for the scientific opinion. Long successfully used to breed superior livestock, the results are perfectly harmless and safe...
Like a sick man hanging on the doctor's opinion, Brazil's business and financial world awaited the final report of the Abbink Commission. This joint U.S.-Brazilian team of 105 experts, led by U.S. Economist John Abbink (chairman of McGraw-Hill International Corp.) had begun its study of Brazil's ailing economy six months ago; since then, businessmen and politicians in Rio had speculated endlessly on the probable diagnoses, the possible cures. Some had hopefully regarded "los Abbinks" as advance agents of the U.S. Treasury. Last week, when the U.S. State Department finally published a summary...
Culture, Eliot holds, can be passed on by men primarily through their children, because only through the family can people grasp another important element of culture-"Piety towards the dead, however obscure, and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote." So, in Eliot's opinion, if an "elite" does not become a rooted upper class, it cannot have any real cultural value; to enemies of aristocracy Eliot says that though in a class system many aristocrats fail to live up to their ancestors' high calling, a precious handful may be relied upon to fulfill the obligations of their...
...Americans will be prepared to accept Expatriate Eliot's dismal conclusions in which the sole ray of light is the grudging admission that Britain (which in Eliot's opinion is rapidly forgetting Christianity) may yet re-create a degree of culture by adopting "some inferior or materialistic religion...