Word: confounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strength. Previously unknown, it is now being estimated from the force of his long boarded, but now freely given entrance. His reserve was the fountain-head of his strength, confirming his supporters in the conviction that he saw all that was going on, and could, if he would, confound his opponents by telling them a thing...
Russia: "I do not confound the Russian people nor the Russian Government with the Moscow International, whose political literature is stupid and puerile, and does not impress me. In trying to reestablish relations with the Soviet Republic, I shall not let myself be maneuvered by agitation and I shall not forget that small French investors have great interests in Russia...
...enjoyment. But the somber faces of some might lead to the belief that it were a solemn duty being performed." This, of course, is not the case. And while these level-headed gentlemen will by their enforced patronage give balance and dignity to the occasion, they will not utterly confound the mirthfully inclined for all their immitigable feature and respectable frames...
...holds that Science and experience have shown little with likelihood of surety, and nothing with certainty of it. Hence the Virgin Birth cannot be counted out on that score. Furthermore, all who deny the possibility of Virgin Birth forget that there is a class of happenings, or miracles, which confound and contradict the usual scientific occurrences, if the two groups are considered together, even as is the case when the corresponding human powers of reason and mysticism are mixed...
...countries and of studying the annals of past times is to preserve man from the contraction of mind which those can hardly escape whose whole communion is with one generation and one neighborhood, who arrive at conclusions by means of an induction not sufficiently copious, and who therefore constantly confound exceptions with rules and accidents with essential properties." . . . "The student, like the tourist, is transported into a new state of society. He sees new fashions. He hears new models of expression. His mind is enlarged by contemplating the wide diversities of laws, of morals, and of manners...