Word: dumbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Then Shall We Do? This question Biologist Wells answers with another questionקs Homo Tewler born dumb or is he made dumb? Is Tewleremia hereditary or environmental? If the former, the end of man (thanks to the appalling power of human ingenuity) is not far off Another war or two will do it, if this one fails. But if, as Wells believes, Homo Tewler is a bundle of terribly conditioned reflexes, then he is redeemable. First however, he must discard his mental and social shackles, do the two things he is conditioned never to do: listen to reason...
Several Adams House men don't believe in "that be kind to dumb animals stuff" any more, according to latest reports from the cat front. They have been feeding a feline through a B-B gun hole in the window of a store on Bow Street, wherein the tabby was trapped, for the last few days. But they weren't able to get enough food in that...
There are still good, "adequate" younger men, who try hard to serve the nation and justify the dignity of their titles. But too often a seat in Congress is only the reward for dumb loyalty to party machines; Congress has too many members with no conception of world events, men who are no more fit to lead than any ward heeler...
...this opus will convince anyone that its parts were dished out by either the neighborhood horsedoctor or Mickey Rooney. Paulette Goddard, whom we recall quite pleasantly as a sweater-girl from her native Bronx, is made-up into a Southern belle with absolutely ghastly effect. John Wayne plays the dumb-but-honest-lug-who-goes-wrong--a part admirably in-harmony with his facial expressions; and Ray Milland, completing the triangle, is thoroughly helpless with lines that no Booth could have carried...
...United States means business, and we won't be satisfied until we see American and Chinese troops in Tokyo together. There is a great deal of work to do and there are mistakes to be repaired. In the United States we were too dumb to see through the Japanese, and now we are paying for it. We realize they are a dangerous and aggressive enemy- but where they have been met by anything like equal strength, they have been licked...