Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion the challenger is sure to come from his side of the elimination tournament which is being run by promoter Tex Rickard. Dempsey is the leading contender on the other side, but the Boston boxer believes that the former champion will not succeed in his "comeback" attempt...
...order to pacify at once the professional legislator and the professional alumnus, and the opinion for wide open doors to all satisfying minimum requirements in state or endowed institutions, which they represent, some such institution as the Junior College is necessary. Giving a two-year course and an A. A. degree it should be a unit in itself and not merely a step toward a professionalized college. Into it would flow that lower third in private colleges and that lower half in state colleges who usually drop out after the first two years anyway under the present system...
...realm of knowledge, there is "the influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third [present] French Republic," through an analysis of which Dr. Eber Malcolm Carroll of Duke University may help U. S. statesmen make sense with puzzling Paris...
...prodigious intellect than any in the history of the race, that Shakespeare stands alone and that Abraham Lincoln stands alone, but I implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three by Tolstoy, four by Turgeniev, one by Gogol-all Russians. 'Would you dare,' I asked, 'oust any of them in favor of Dickens...
...industrialist, Henry Ford has made one of the greatest contributions ever made by any man. That is mass production. It amounts to first rate genius. But just as I am color blind, Henry Ford has blind spots in his intellect. In my opinion he is mentally unsound on certain questions of race and religion. He has a streak of bigotry on that side of his mind that is totally foreign to his industrial ability...