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TIME derived its explanation (TIME, July 25, p. 4) from able lexicographical authority, but in the face of such a common-sense consensus acknowledges its misguidance. Thanks to Readers Parker and Hooper for two more bacony phrases...
...Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus was to tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model League of Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which after twelve years make visiting foreigners wonder why landlocked Denver is so world-minded. A few Denver intransigeants call Director Cherrington a Communist, but real Communists call...
Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to hibernate, been washed down & down by seeping water to the extraordinary depth at which they were found...
...Manhattan last fortnight, it loosed a hum of delighted praise, reduced even strong arm critics to little, childish cries. Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote with tears in his eyes that Snow White was the happiest event since the Armistice. By last week, only rare exceptions to this consensus had been filed. The New York News humphed editorially: "Nevertheless, we'd rather see seven reels of Ginger Rogers, Jeanette MacDonald or several others. . . ." And last week the New Masses, following its Marxian line, grumped that Disney had bowdlerized Grimm's "savage and moral" tale, had turned...
Library opinion of Princess Baba was unanimously favorable. "Obviously the most beautiful woman who has ever been in Widener Library" seemed to be the consensus of these preparing for the State Government examination in the Government section of the Reading Room--" An exquisite blonde of Junoesque preparations, didn't you think," just about summed up the English tables, while the Library official who conducted the four contented himself with one of the greatest understatements of the new year. "Um rather an attractive girl, I thought." he said...