Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorites. Last week able John Gielgud appeared on Broadway in Guthrie McClintic's Hamlet. True to tradition, play-reviewers threw down their programs, rushed to their form books to weigh Mr. Gielgud's worth against every Hamlet from Barrymore, Forbes-Robertson and Irving to Booth and Burbadge. Consensus seemed to be that next month, when the reviewers sit in judgment on Leslie Howard's portrayal of the gloomy Dane, the name of Gielgud will be added to the list of notable comparative Hamlets...
...undergraduate with literary ambitions. Mother Advocate holds several competitions a year, one of which is going on at the present time. These competitions last about six weeks, and, although the work is not easy, unfair demands are not made upon the time of the candidate. According to the consensus of opinion practically all college competitions are well worth while from the point of view of the candidate, even if he doesn't make the grade, Especially true is this of the "Advocate", for the opportunity of writing for a particular publication is excellent training for adapting one's interests...
...gravel at Piltdown Sussex, fragments of a fossilized skull and jaw which were reconstructed by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward as Eoanthropus, the famed man of Piltdown. Some scholars refused to believe at first that a skull so human could be associated with a jaw so apelike, but present-day consensus is that the fragments actually belonged to one individual. Most anthropologists-notably excepting Sir Arthur Keith-hold that the Piltdown man, like the Pekin man and the Java apeman, were offshoot types which died out and were not on the ancestral line of Homo sapiens. Nevertheless Piltdown appeared...
Except in luxury lines like lace, perfume, hosiery, jewelry, most U. S. businessmen would have only academic interest in devaluation of the franc unless Britain deliberately pushed down the pound, perhaps leading in turn to another cut in the dollar. Consensus was that no such cycle would follow, that in world conditions recovery in France would more than offset the temporary confusion caused by a franc cut loose from gold...
Forecasts. In other respects, last week's games did little to verify expert forecasts. Consensus rated the teams as follows...