Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deep problem, even for a clever Welshman. Not only his political career, but his moral foundations are slipping under him. And although he may save the first by keeping the film out of England, he cannot escape his conscience, which tells him constantly that, whoever is right, he has done wrong, How Mr. Lloyd-George must regret ever having gone to Germany...
Partiality to the clever student, over-emphasis on the field of concentration, mechanization of the tutorial conference, and lack of sympathy between the tutor and his advisee, are situations which may arise under the system and which Dr. Demos deplores. His observations, however, are all of a constructively critical nature with the view of correcting the faults of the system while it is still in the formative stage...
...Dunworth opened his program, which he calls "Spiritism, an Instructive and Educational Expose," with a series of clever card tricks which he accompanied with the customary rapid fire conversation for the "mis-direction of the attention," so essential to observers of magic. All of the tricks were explained and the superiority of the hand over the eye was again demonstrated...
...this quotation does the CRIMSON mean to insinuate that it is possible for even the mightiest mind, the weightiest arguments, or the most clever arrangement of facts to refute the teachings of Jesus Christ? Does it mean to infer that in the college the student learns these secret disproo's? That here his "ignorance" --the "ignorance" to which he must submit in order "to revert to religion . . . against his reason"--is shattered? That here he learns to despise Christianity because he has either discovered or been taught facts or "arguments . . . (which) . . . refute (the) words" of Christ...
...receive authentic messages from the dead? Is there really something in spiritualism, or are the manifestations we see and hear of as being presented by Spiritualists merely clever tricks...