Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks down on great liners moored in the Hudson River. Among the ships on which the Foundation's chairman, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., and its president, Raymond Elaine Fosdick, looked last week were the German steamers Deutschland and Columbus, the Italian Rex. Fresh from the printer was the opinion of the governments symbolized by those ships, which President Fosdick was about to deliver to Mr. Rockefeller and the other 18 trustees of the $150,000,000 philanthropic Foundation. Wrote this great almoner...
...Princeton University's Public Opinion Quarterly, Psychologist Remmers reported on studies of the effects of propaganda on students in small high schools. First the students were asked to record their opinions on public questions, then given a dose of propaganda, then retested...
...while it brought a test case against Electric Bond & Share. In court, however, SEC attempted to limit the test solely to the registration feature. E. B. & S. lost twice in lower courts and last week it failed again to get a complete judgment on the Act. Reading the majority opinion, Chief Justice Hughes refused to consider anything but the issue of registration, left the rest of the law for future adjudication. This there will surely be when SEC starts reforming the industry after it is completely registered. Some 44% of utility assets have already bowed to the SEC yoke...
Monsignor Michael Cline: "Life suffers more from monotony than from adventure. Risk is only censurable when it is too big for the one who undertakes it. ... The lady in question failed to draw the line between a legitimate risk and a foolhardy plunge. ... My opinion of the lady is that expressed by Wordsworth: All too good for human nature's daily food...
...tears up her letters, considers pushing her under a passing automobile, and almost walks the legs off her when she visits him in Paris. Although he gets Solange, and gets Andrée, both triumphs cost so much misery that even male readers are to have a low opinion of Costals by the time wins them. Their opinion might be even lower, Author de Montherlant implies, were they unable to find comparable cruelty somewhere in the history of their own love affairs...