Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the directors of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team last month ousted their able manager Casey Stengel, amazed baseball reporters promptly began guessing the name of his successor. Consensus was that it would be pugnacious Burleigh Grimes, who pitched for Brooklyn from...
...subject of a general wage boost, now being agitated by U. S. Steel's company unions, Chairman Taylor was silent. Consensus is that steel wages will be upped as soon as steel consumers can be persuaded to pay higher prices for the metal. For once the nation's steelmen are not adverse to a general pay increase because that action might undercut the efforts of John Llewellyn Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization which is out to unionize the citadel of the open shop...
...Halloween celebration on the part of a certain firebug element among the undergraduates was the consensus of opinion as to the casus belli. The immediate result was a half hour traffic tieup, during which time the delayed motorists expressed impatience in the usual harmonious fashion...
...Consensus on the first play of the Guild's 19th subscription season seemed to be that the Twins Epstein could write dialog as witty as S. N. Behrman's, but were inferior to that oldtime Guild playwright when it came to the passages intended to convey deep social significance. A minority, not impressed by either Behrman's or the Epsteins' parlor politics, was inclined to call honors about even...
...General consensus of opinion among those who have seen both teams in action feel that Dartmouth is three touchdowns better than the eleven Harlow will field. But then, more extravagant estimates of Green supremacy were made before the close 14-6 struggle last year...