Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Families of persons who, in the opinion of a commission to be appointed, have deserved well of the nation or of the Fascist regime...
...understood that the grill is doomed unless strong undergraduate opinion is formed to prevent its misuse. The matter has been laid before the Student Council, college officials said, where an investigation is being conducted to attempt to offer a solution to the problem...
...charges in the local press that universities were "hotbeds of Communism" and that by implication, through his support of Loyalist Spain, he himself was a Communist, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night branded these statements as "the universal trick of all people trying to sway public opinion...
...years," says the narrator. "Grief for one at a time, yes. But eleven all at once-I hate to say it but I didn't know where to begin." If it failed to make him sad, the narrator continues, the incident at least enabled him to form an opinion of life. It was a low opinion, but subsequent events did nothing to change it. He became successively a bellhop, an elevator boy, a croupier, a soldier, a jewel thief, a card sharp. Women came and went: the countess in the hotel at Monte Carlo, a beautiful blonde burglar...
...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, to discuss these questions. After the discussions he again tested them to find out how much each individual's opinion had changed, and whose opinion had prevailed. By examining these results, and then assaying the mental and personality traits...