Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visiting speakers with a concrete proposal for speedy mobilization of the opinions of nations on issues of international import : Let every nation establish its national telephone exchange. At an emergency, let all accredited national institutes be called up by expert publicists from the nation's capital. Let the consensus of these opinions be laid before the world...
...research work on Keats and her volume of criticism on modern French poetry have already won fame for her as a scholar. The fact that she has championed the more radical tendencies in modern poetical form has denied her the same fame as a creative artist, but the consensus of opinion among literary critics of the day stamps her as America's foremost living poet...
...plethora of comment inflated the receptive pages of journals, hebdomadals and mensals to show whether or not the election of Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg to the German Presidency meant "this," meant "that." A consensus of more reliable opinion averred that the Field Marshal's election was an omen of good import, that it meant the beginning of a rule of law and order with no immediate, though probably a later (one writer mentioned ten years) restoration of the monarchy, that it presaged a fuller return of foreign confidence and a resumption by Germany of her place in the comity...
Stephen Rathbitn - "Consensus of opinion seemed to be that the play wasn't as bad as everybody had expected...
...plays produced for the intelligent, gave the piece a satisfactory display. Most of their usual players (Helen Freeman, Edgar Stehli, Walter Abel, E. J. Ballantine, Perry Ivins) were in the cast and accounted for themselves with even competence. Adrienne Morrison, a visitor, added a brilliant touch. It was the consensus of opinion that the piece was just well enough played to make you pine to see it with an all-star company...