Word: confounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard senior, one of those rare personages who occasionally turn up to confound the "how many steps are there on your front porch see you don't know although you climb them every day" dictum of modern psychologists, recently sat in his room, desperately put to pass the time between 1:45 o'clock and 1:55 o'clock when he could amble off to a class. Idly he eyed the cover of the October 1 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a night football game; and idly he began to count the yard-lines on the grid-iron there displayed...
...like burlesque and Annabella, relax for three hours at the University; if you dislike to see Shakspere used to confound the unenlightened, and to watch English producers get horribly involved in their machinations to make a mystery picture mysterious, fidget and repent that you did not go elsewhere...
...clerk or farm worker who preaches after hours. His sermons take for granted complete loyalty to the Stalin State and he glibly cites from the works of Marx and Lenin passages which suit his purposes. Indeed Soviet newsorgans have been complaining that often the village priest seems able to confound the village Communist leader by superior erudition in the works of Stalin himself, greater familiarity with the lengthy Party texts...
Stay, and confound her tears and her shrill cryings...
Dear to the heart of Publisher William Randolph Hearst is the notion that he can thwart and confound his enemies by the simple process of keeping their names out of his 33 newspapers. Two months ago Publisher Hearst added to his editors' list of unmentionables the name of Stanford University. Since Stanford is a prime athletic newsmaker, Hearstlings struggled over their sports pages, concocted such lame evasions as ''the Indians," "men from the Farm," ''the University at Palo Alto.'" What purpose his ban served only Publisher Hearst knew. What prompted it, however...