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Just how many people answered in good faith is difficult to determine. Probably the best "index" question would be that on the Civil War President. The Times says that 25 per cent of American college freshmen do not honestly know the answer to this question. A consensus of American history teachers at Harvard and other colleges revealed 2 as the more likely figure...
Ware rose to his feet again, this time to move that the Association sponsor a farewell party for the maids. The consensus of opinion seemed to be that each man should let the punishment fit the crime and that action be guided by individual conscience. The motion died from lack of a second. By way of an apology, Ware claimed that the motion was introduced only on behalf of a constituent, the whom we will leave anonymous...
Apparently under pressure from Berlin, Rome retracted. But Allied speculation was increased by: 1) the visit of New York's Archbishop Francis Spellman to the Vatican (TIME, Feb. 22); 2) reports from Swedish sources that Finland hoped to make a deal (see below). Semi-official consensus from London and Washington: Keep eyes & ears open, but do not expect peace before victory...
...funny," was the consensus of opinion of the staff of cryptographers, naval, military, amateur, and journalistic, who assembled in the CRIMSON news room last night and for three hours and 48 minutes belabored their brows and their pencils in a vain if dramatic attempt to solve the riddle of the code message in "Terry and the Pirates...
...Consensus of the 14 newspaper, magazine and radio men present was much the same For three days they had watched the Army display its might on a lids-off tour arranged by Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson. Purpose: to give the U.S. a glimpse of how its war tax dollars are being spent, to inspire confidence in the foresight and energy of the men directing the war's technical side...