Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accident which occurred in the case of the ill-fated Italia may seem to many just one more reason for condemning the airship as unsafe and impractical, but it is my opinion that, while aviation will never altogether supersede the automobile, the one will eventually supplement the other as a means of travel...
Sirs: By applying such a word as "cowardly" to the expression of an opinion by Mr. Shaw you merely make yourselves and your publication ridiculous and affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...
...less profound than Senator Borah but with better memories, recalled that on May 16, 1921, the Supreme Court had decided this exact point−and decided it solidly against Senator Borah's present interpretation. In the case of Dillon v. Gloss, Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the unanimous opinion of the court...
...Root Formula (TIME, March 18) is a polite rephrasing of the U.S. Senate's notorious "Reservation V," drafted to provide for U.S. adherence only on condition the Court would not, without U.S. consent, render "an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest." As finally approved by the League Committee, last week, this brusque language is softened without emasculation, thus...
...With a view to insuring that the court shall not, without the consent of the United States, entertain any request for an advisory opinion touching any dispute or question in which the United States has or claims an interest, the Secretary General of the League of Nations shall, through any channel designated for the purpose by the United States, inform the United States of any proposal before the Council or Assembly of the League for obtaining an advisory opinion from the World Court and thereupon, if desired, an exchange of views as to whether an interest of the United States...