Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three committeemen is Abbott Lawrence Lowell, since 1909 President of Harvard University. Before entering the Harvard Faculty he had 17 years' experience in the practice of law, has made the science of government his specialty and has written two books on the character and potency of public opinion...
...fact that there are more workers unemployed in the U. S. than in Great Britain. . . . Although no official statistics on the subject of unemployment in the U. S. are issued by the U. S. Government, it appears to be generally accepted by those competent to form an opinion that out of 12,000,000 workers engaged in manufacturing and industry in the U. S. 1,500,000 are unemployed. . . . Our own unemployment figure has just sunk to 978,000, the lowest since...
...Haven, Conn., June 8.--Attendance at Yale Chapel during the first year that it has been made voluntary here has, according to the opinion of the Reverend Mr. H. H. Tweedy of the Divinity School, been good and shows promise for the coming year...
...feel that communism is being threatened. To press it would probably be to incur the hostility of the other nations who would inevitably regard the action as totally unwarranted. It is possible that the severity already threatened is no more than a beau geste for the benefit of Russian opinion, and that further action is improbable. But thus to confuse further an already delicate issue would seem extremely unwise. How the matter will be settled remains to be seen, but it appears that Russia has been placed in a much more awkward position than Poland, and it will probably require...
...reprint the missing pages, or even to mend the old pages if they should be returned and to rebind the volume, will be a serious expense, yet the Library must in some way repair the loss. Any course of action or any expression of opinion that will prevent such destruction in the future, we should be prompt to adopt...