Word: cynics
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...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...
...wasn't really a cynic. The boys thought he was, but they were prejudiced. Gus was just the janitor, and all janitors are queer ducks to college...
...understand, one couldn't exactly call Gus a cynic. The Dead-bones thought he was because he laughed when they said "Brute" Howell had school spirit...
...wasn't really a cynic. It might have been school spirit. But he couldn't help laughing. You see . . . he had to clean...