Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mussolini's character and personality carry a strange fascination to Americans . . . especially among the higher classes. . . . It is my opinion that whatever Italy might ask today of American financiers would be conceded without questioning, for Americans like strong peoples...
Mouse Trap. The bizarre opinion that valor is a mouse trap was quaintly justified by the circumstances which caused Chang Tso-lin to withdraw from Peking last week, without fighting any final pitched engagement or making a theatrical "last stand." Circumstances...
...Cheap money will prevail, and it is my opinion that the current tendency of tightening money rates is more due to an attempt to discourage speculation than to registration of any fundamental unsoundness of industry. With the banks continuously increasing their deposits, it is natural that these surplus funds will be placed in outside channels seeking good investment. "I do not share the opinion that the present movement of the stock market is due to any one man or group of individuals but is due to world-wide prosperity. . . . In Paris, London and Berlin good securities have had terrific advances...
...this would entail, coming as it would in the nature of an after thought. But where such an innovation would be possible, that is in such courses that are pot, by their very nature, kept to rigid lines of study. I should like to ascertain the trend of campus opinion, in the hope that, if the plan should meet with enough backing a petition could be arranged for and, God being willing, a short reading period at the end of this semester actually become a reality. The Dartmouth...
There is one article in this issue that might well have been omitted, in the opinion of this reviewer. Mr. Robinson contributes an essay on Carl Sandburg which seems more in the nature of a bit of scholarly research than material for the Advocate. The article is beyond doubt well written, but it bears an atmosphere suspiciously reminiscent of reports and tutorial labors. The familiar essay seems more in keeping with the spirit of the Advocate than any scholarly treatise on the subject of one of our modern poets. But then, the editors are apparently seeking to publish a well...