Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general opinion of the members of the team, when approached on the subject after the examination, seemed to be that the test was fair and in fact less difficult than what they had expected. Asked individually if they would make any predictions as to the outcome of the contest, the members of the team all declined on the grounds that they knew nothing of the power of their opponents...
...eighteen months Mr. Hoover was connected with the company, first as engineer and later as manager, it changed from a nonsuccess to a success, and continued as a success. . . . Mr. Hoover's record in China is clean and honorable, highly creditable and in many ways remarkable. ... In my opinion Mr. Hoover took away from China far less than he rightly earned, and today he retains the respect of the Chinese in a degree equal to that of any foreigner who ever was connected with our country...
...been proved to spend his leisure time "in drinking immoderately . . . contracting many bad debts . . . [and] generally leading a dissolute life." Squeamish Poles rejoiced at a further official announcement that the permanent gallows which now stand in the yards of all State prisons will be removed "as offensive to public opinion." Hereafter a special, temporary gallows will be erected for each neck-snapping or strangulation...
This gulf of opinion between the secondary school and the college still stretches, deep and dangerous, across the flat of America's democratic education. Charges from the one side or the other are vain material to build a bridge across; experiment and experience are the two cables that must finally span...
...that it has ever failed to give one one's money's worth, but this week the Metropolitan gives interest--huge interest--in that Cupid-like "Barnum of Bandland," the rotund Paul Whiteman. But it has long been our opinion that Paul not only possesses his share of avoirdupois but also a proportionate amount or that something known as "it." To say the least, he and his music fill the mammoth Met stage as it has never been filled before with beats and throbs and sobs of soulful syncopation. In fact, Paul, surrounded by a more admirable bevy of beauties...