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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Logical Humor | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN NINE LOSES TO BROWN 1928, 4 TO 1 | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 3, 1924 | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

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...

Author: By D. S. Brigham ., | Title: TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1920 NOT ENTIRELY SUCCESSFUL | 11/14/1922 | See Source »

At the beginning of the game, Shevlin's variation of the Minnesota shift seemed to bewilder Brown. Yale started off with an attack that gained 62 yards, taking the ball right up to Brown's goal-posts; but there it stopped, and the shift was abandoned until the last quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN WON OVER YALE BY SINGLE FIELD GOAL | 11/8/1915 | See Source »

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