Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primarily by gestures like this--isolated and infinitesimal though they may seem in themselves--that international relations are promoted. These scholarships may well result in nuclei of good faith toward the United States, which will diffuse and permeate large portions of South American opinion...
...balanced by the New Deal or by a successor administration for a long time to come. Corollary of this (not of course believed by the President) is that the U. S. debt will never be paid off, and that until some drastic event-such as wild inflation-changes public opinion, the U. S. will not again attempt to live within its means...
...some conservative anthropological quarters it was feared that Dr. Broom might be a trifle overenthusiastic. Dr. Broom, however, invited Dr. William King Gregory to come over to South Africa, examine his skulls, express any opinion he liked. Dr. Gregory (of Columbia University, Manhattan's American Museum) is a top-notch paleontologist who knows as much about the evolution of primate teeth as anyone alive. He went, looked. By last week he was back and perfectly willing to add his opinion that the Broom finds are of "exceptional importance...
...small-brained . . . man-apes of South Africa," observed Dr. Gregory, "now add their mute testimony that man, like his less ambitious cousins, the modern anthropoid apes, is a descendant of the late Tertiary dryopethicine ape stock of Europe, Asia, and Africa." In Dr. Gregory's opinion, indubitable apes evolved into indubitable humans during a profound structural upheaval compassed within the past ten or twelve million years...
...state of U. S. psychological opinion on ESP was clarified last week by the results of a questionnaire published in Duke University's Journal of Parapsychology. Physicist Clarence C. Clark of New York University and a collaborator questioned 603 members of the American Psychological Association, got replies from 352. Of these, five agreed with Rhine that ESP was "an established fact." Of the remaining 347 who did not regard it as such, 142 voted it "merely an unknown," 51 "an impossibility," 128 "a remote possibility," 26 "a likely possibility...