Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME asked Wythe Williams, foreign news expert and editor of Connecticut's Greenwich Time, for his up-to-the-minute opinion. According to Williams: "Great Britain and France now have their last chance to seize the leadership of Europe that has been usurped by Germany, and thus preserve peace. If they fail, then war is inevitable, probably by the beginning of summer. It will be war to the bitterest end. Germany may lose. But also she may very probably drag the world down with...
...snakes, another's of high places, another's of germs may well be due to environmental conditioning. But he believes that such conditioning simply controls the direction of emotional response, that the basic amount of emotionality is inherited. The researches which have led him to this opinion have been conducted by him and his co-workers on rats...
Justices Black and Stone, in separate opinions, found nothing in the U. S. Constitution to render Federal salaries immune. In a concurring opinion, Justice Frankfurter observed: "Whether Congress may, by express legislation, relieve its functionaries from their civic obligations to pay the benefits of the State governments under which they live, is matter for another...
Gallup Polls, which probably lead public opinion as well as record it, last week showed striking increases in the strength of leading popular choices for the 1940 Presidential nominations. Among Democrats, John Nance Garner rose from a 20% choice (December) to 42%. Trailing him in order: Jim Farley, 10%; Cordell Hull, 10% ; Harry Hopkins...
...idea of "election: to valances should, in the opinion of the Committee, supersede the traditional idea of "promotion...