Word: consensus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consensus of these opinions is amply justified by The Public Health Service, which estimates an all-time record of 3,260,000 babies born in the U.S. last year...
...Plant & a Paradox. The business of saving the world progressed slowly. Yet the consensus on the past week in Moscow...
...Committee meeting's consensus was that the Club 100's Friday and Saturday night business had been effectively reduced by the operation of the picket line outside the establishment. Fower than 200 customers were reported to have crossed the lines on the two nights...
...action was of more significance than a mere change in trading technicalities. During the war the market, the consensus of guesses on the financial future, went steadily up as 1) speculators bet on more inflation to come and 2)some of the inflationary cash went into the market because there were no goods for it to buy. The FRB steadily cut down trading on margin until a year ago, when Chairman Eccles decided that inflation had reached "dangerous proportions." To brake the market, he put trading on a cash basis. Now, Marriner Eccles was finally recognizing what the collapse...
...celebrate the centennial of Morton's and Warren's historic operation. After reverent visits to the famed Ether Dome, now a medical shrine, the scientists settled down, in a huge tent pitched outside the hospital, to a three-days' appraisal of the ether century. The consensus, as summed up by Dr. Henry Knowles Beecher, Massachusetts General's anesthetist in chief: Anesthesia "was perhaps man's greatest and most original discovery. . . . If, at a stroke, the world's poverty were to be wiped out, this would hardly be greater than the fact of clinical anesthesia...