Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rain, sleet, snow fell on the Western Front. Rivers rose two feet higher. Mud deepened. Despite continued German troop concentrations and systematic artillery fire, consensus of military observers was increasingly against any Big Push by land this winter...
Before nightfall Lewis' crack at Garner had become a national gag. Bibbers lifted highballs with happy cries of "Well, here goes, you whiskey-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man." Columnists' consensus was that old tomato-nosed John Garner now had the drinking and card-playing vote locked up solidly...
...President "Frank," undoubtedly can and will give his teacher many a pointer on diplomacy as it is practiced in explosive Tokyo. Already rated one of the best career diplomats in the U. S. Foreign Service when Herbert Hoover sent him to Japan in 1932, Ambassador Grew by general consensus has done a bang up job of pleasantly conveying unpleasant news to the Nipponese...
...Roosevelt elevated him, he was chairman of SEC. Last week end he cruised with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins on the Potomac. Chief conversational topic: the current state of U. S. business. When Harry Hopkins got back to his desk he expressed what was doubtless the trio's consensus: that to read the latest resolutions of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (seep. 67), "it would seem that apparently, some of them don't believe in this economic system...
...behind the recommendation of Gannett's Council is not to open an attack upon the Student Council report, but rather to provide the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports with the general consensus of student feeling. The Regulation Committee meets on May 1 to decide the fate of the plan, and until then William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will withhold official comment on the subject...