Word: boneheads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst accompanied his blows* with many a spellbinding flourish, gallant references to women, a few vivid phrases ("Cossack crew of enforcement officers," "bonehead Drys and bullhead Wets"). His conclusion was a concentrated attack upon the Jones Act, and this bit of advice from potent Publisher William Randolph Hearst...
...been a difficulty of the colleges that their students think too much, and the capacity of the average undergraduate to withstand information is one of his most engaging, if also his most exasperating, characteristics. But it is not quite enough to score him off on that account as a "bonehead". It is partly at least the failure of a traditional form of education to impress him with its value. It seems almost a fault in the colleges that they are so organized as to impress upon the freshman that scholastic achievement doesn't get him anywhere, and it is almost...