Word: cynics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynic might be inclined to view these events as the inevitable course of natural events in a world where the almighty dollar rules supreme. We would rather consider them but a temporary lapse in a tradition as fine as the sport itself. The Princetonian
Further than that, the College can do nothing. To send spies to the reviews in question would be impractical and inexpensive; to pounce upon suspects on reading their reports would risk all kinds of injustice and embarassment. But only a bigoted self-cynic could maintain that such Ogpustic activity was necessary...
Fellow 6., swell but eccentric--a cynic, quick thinker, unusual sense of humor--innate idealism; Fellow 7., friendly and hard working . . . no originality or wit . . . doesn't talk much...
...this enzyme solution is comparatively simple, when thoroughly understood. We can be responsible for no results obtained by investigators who have not had special training." Such circumspection was invaluable to Dr. Connell. Immediately after publication of this report in the C. M. A. Journal came this snort from arch-cynic Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of Manhattan's Institute of Cancer Research: "Nothing in Dr. Connell's results, as published, contains anything which could not have occurred spontaneously. All of the things he described we see every day in the cancer wards. It is useless to speak...
...cynic might argue that the activities undertaken in the name of science in the cinema are not more absurd than those undertaken in the name of science in reality. It would not be an easy argument to win. In She, for example, the dying physicist, who is as essential to this school of film as the corpse to a murder mystery, announces a hypothesis that life may be indefinitely prolonged in a human being by broiling him over a phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate...