Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a difference of opinion concerning Boston audiences. Miss Holm seemed to think that Boston audiences did not react very heartily to risque lines and she termed Bostonians "rather slow." Miss Buchanan, who takes the lead said that she was agreeably surprised how warm the audiences in the Hub were. "The audiences in San Francisco were the most appreciative," she added...
...week in The Bronx, New York City, for selling "indecent literature"-a Bronx-banned copy of LIFE containing the "Birth of a Baby" pictures* (TIME, April 18). This week, as Publisher Larsen prepared to go on trial for the first time in his life, the American Institute of Public Opinion revealed that it had cut a quick cross-section of U. S. voters, of whom 17,000,000 (by Institute estimate) had seen the disputed pictures in LIFE...
...Institute asked them: "In your opinion, do these pictures violate the law against publication of material which is obscene, filthy or indecent?" "No," replied 74%. To the question: "Do you approve of this method of teaching the public about childbirth and care of mothers?" 61% answered...
...those who prefer the second answer is Associate Director A. I. Oparin of the Biochemical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Science. For more than 15 years Dr. Oparin has studied the question in the light of present-day chemical knowledge. Between life and nonlife, in his opinion, there is no sharp boundary. He does not believe that life emerged suddenly and spontaneously from dead matter, but that it developed very gradually after a long preliminary evolution of organic but nonliving substances. In this slow unfolding an observer would have been unable to say just where life began, unless...
...last year acquired Guaranty Life Insurance Co. of Davenport, Iowa. Last month Occidental started negotiating with Sears, Roebuck & Co. for the purchase of Hercules Life Insurance Co. of Chicago (TIME, April 4). Last week this deal was called off. Reason given by President Carl L. Odell of Hercules: "Public opinion seems to be against removal of assets . . . so far from Illinois...