Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years hence, when John Llewellyn Lewis looks back from a dazzling height or a dark depth at the first week of July 1937, he may well mark it as a turning point in his remarkable career. It was the week in which Public Opinion, veering away from both Labor and Management in sheer irritation with their five-week wrangle on the Steel Front, was summed up by Labor's great friend Franklin Roosevelt in Shakespeare's phrase...
...positive electron- to any mathematical predictions. Not much is known about it except that it is heavier than an electron, lighter than a proton, possessed of high penetrating power. In Denver last week Dr. Street announced that it may be positive as well as negative, that in his opinion it is not a messenger from outer space but originates about ten miles up in the stratosphere, as the result of an impact delivered by a cosmic ray particle. What it is that gives birth to the new particle when struck is a matter of conjecture...
...thought he was "sailing from a storm-tossed sea into a comparatively smooth and protected harbor." now, after a year, he was not so sure. Said he: "If another crisis finds the American banking system disorganized and ineffective, the American citizenry . . . may . . . seize a short cut. . . . Certainly public opinion at such a time will have scant patience with past timidity and inertia of bankers, and with petty bickerings for power among official agencies...
Last week in Milwaukee a Federal District Court judge signed his name to an opinion in accounting proceedings in some patent infringement suits which brought sewage disposal smack into the dinner-table conversation of every taxpayer in the city. To Activated Sludge, Inc., which had sued the City of Milwaukee, its Sewerage Commission and several contractors for using its patented method of treating sewage and certain patented apparatus used for this purpose without license, Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger awarded profits and damages of $4,977,000, the equivalent of a $6 tax increase for each $1,000 of real...
...been libeled. The Post filed a demurrer on the grounds that White had suffered no damage and that the suit was nonactionable, was upheld in Circuit Court. White appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court and ordered the case remanded in a resounding opinion by Justice Thomas E. Knight Sr.: "The purchase of a girl from her parents, to be carried to some distant country to complete an Arab's harem of four wives, is abhorrent to our American institutions and to our conception of morality, and to falsely and maliciously publish to the world...