Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issued one statement: "The appointments to the Cabinet are in line with the overwhelming sentiment of the nation for national solidarity in a time of world crisis and in behalf of our national defense -and nothing else." Aside from the thoughts of Republicans and Democrats who viewed the appointments only as a smart device for affecting the political campaign, the President may well have viewed them as useful for less partisan purposes-useful perhaps to lend new hope to Britain, whose immediate collapse would place the U. S. in an even more dangerous position, useful possibly to lift the desperate...
Choosing a college is like choosing a mate: it covers a lot of ground, it is tinged with sentiment and nobody knows exactly how it is done. Last week a professional old grad, Columbia University's Alumni Secretary Clarence E. Lovejoy, tried to reduce the guesswork in college-choosing by publishing a collegiate Baedeker titled So You're Going to College (Simon & Schuster...
...Then by mathematical means - the "calculus of probability" and the principles of momentum and inertia - he calculates the shape of the trend curves as they reach into the future. By noting the height of the curve at a given future time, say next November, he arrives at the voting sentiment which he believes will then exist...
Flatly to be rejected, because resting on nightmarish statistical procedure, is your claim to having discovered war sentiment...
people. Senators with six-year terms enjoy a certain insulation from popular sentiment, but two-year Representatives are never farther than the next election from the horny, hovering hands at home. And Representatives, who alone may initiate tax bills, have traditionally refused even to think about new taxes in an election year...