Word: bewilderment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yours for more and better ways by which to bewilder the Freshman Class. Percy, Yale News.
The art of debate is moving now from very rigid, severe standards of presentation toward a less formal delivery. The Harvard-Yale contest, whence the discussion proceeds, was an experiment pointed in that direction; and like any early experiment in the arts, it tended to bewilder, and its effect was...
Both Linscott, in the Crimson box, and Hadley, the Brown pitching ace, seemed to completely bewilder their opposing batsmen. Each nine got a quota of three hits and it was only by collecting their safeties in the same period, coupled with Hadley's triple, that gave the visitors their margin...
Therefore the playgoer nourished on the realism toward which our better Broadway tendencies have turned will lack sympathy for Mme. Simone. She will bewilder him a little and probably annoy him. Only if he concedes the virtue of her schooling will he enjoy the lessons she has learned so well...
Indifference to the railroad situation may be due partly to the confusion caused by the volume of discussion in recent years about railroad legislation. Government operation, rates, wages, consolidations and many other details, which bewilder the average person whose contact with the railroads is as a passenger or an occasional...