Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sweden was moved by the Russian aggression as nothing else has moved her for years, but public opinion for once differed from Government policy. The Palace-i.e., the King and his advisers-and the minority Conservative and Liberal parties turned thumbs down, demanded strict neutrality. Their ideas stood, and Mr. Sandier fell...
...Contrary to popular opinion, no vaccine, serum or drug has yet been devised that will give immunity, check the progress of the disease, or prevent final paralysis. Most polio workers now believe that the virus enters the body through the nose. Two years ago, Dr. Edwin William Schultz of Stanford University tried to protect 5,000 Toronto school children against the disease by flushing their noses with antiseptic zinc sulfate solution. The experiment, said Dr. Schultz in the new Bulletin, was a flat failure. But doctors still think nasal sprays a hopeful idea, hope some other chemical may prove more...
With both teams undefeated this season, the match last night was especially full of action. In the opinion of timekeeper Adolph W. Samborski '26, director of intramural athletics, Jim Rousemaniere of Winthrop played by far the scrappiest game of the match, and, with such other Puritan stars as Bill LaCroix, Bob Winsor, and Bob Fulton on the ice, the Dormitory players had their hands full...
...public opinion refuses to accept railroads as monopolies although, perversely, it approves having the Interstate Commerce Commission regulate them as such...
...Opinion is, and probably will be for some time to come, divided on the matter," he commented. "Zealous denominationalists suspect an institution like ours of being deficient at most of the crucial points. But persons who are more interested in religions as a whole than in denominations, think that we have a distinctive mission . . . . The drift of the times is away from further sectarianism and towards interdenominationalism and even formal Church unions. Our nonsectarian character, therefore, would not seem to unfit us for the future...