Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are several weaknesses in the present scoring method. First of all, it gives too much weight to the personal opinion of the referee, who, lacking hard-and-fast rules, usually sends close bouts into an overtime session. Also, under present rules, it is possible for a man to win without displaying any aggressive wrestling. Such a wrestler could gain an early time advantage and then merely stall or hang on for dear life until the end of the bout...
TIME does not make clear whether it is expressing editorial opinion or quoting Harvard's eminent Conant when it says, "teaching attracts a less able group than any other profession," teachers know too little about their subject matter, too little about children, too little about social conditions, and teachers "don't like children." TIME views as "alarming" the state of ignorance of America's million teachers, condescendingly admits that teaching "is an honorable profession" (as though anyone doubted it) and goes on to say that the 100,000 youngsters who begin preparation for teaching each year...
...churchmen perennially watch for signs of a U. S. religious revival, are perennially pleased to think they see such signs. An unkind blow were two surveys of U. S. opinion released this week. Not conclusive (because neither provided any conclusive comparison with the past), they were nevertheless far from encouraging...
...Philadelphia, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, now working on a score for the next Walt Disney full-length film, Fantasia, expressed his opinion of the cinema...
...Theodoric, Bishop of Cervia, Italy, an unsung surgical hero of the Middle Ages, insisted that infection and formation of pus, contrary to popular medical opinion, was not necessary for successful healing of a wound. He insisted that wounds be kept clean and dry. So fellow practitioners-who continued for hundreds of years the practice of searing wounds with boiling oil, covering them with such things as bacon, earthworms, rabbit fur, oil of lilies and a boiled concoction of young whelps "just pupp'd"-denounced him as a heretic. Theodoric, says Dr. Graham, was "as great an original thinker...