Word: dumbfoundedness
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A writer for Newspaperdom, journalistic trade-sheet, compared newspapers of the West and East, noted differences. He proposed that Eastern editors learn from Westerners: 1) "Greater local pride and booster spirit." (Said he: "The booster spirit of the Far West is familiar to everyone." ) 2) "Greater attention to school news...
All sorts of evidence continued to pile up at Committee hearings, about those who had an interest in the leasing of Teapot Dome. One J. Leo Stack, a Colorado oil operator, testified that he had heard of the lease to Sinclair a week before it was made. Another, John C...
In the next week a slight slump came in the Yale play as might have been expected after the Army contest. Maryland invaded the Bowl with a strong eleven which proceeded to cross the Blue goal line twice before the first period had ended. Yale was dumbfounded. Soon, however, the...
The great trouble with this place is that it is all talk, talk; nobody is willing to listen. No sooner had I finished giving the Dean my beliefs than he attempted to answer them. Of course, the only dignified thing for me to do was to walk out of the...
The effectiveness of Mr. Day's arguments is rather shattered by a careful search of the university catalogues of the past four years, which falls to disclose any evidence that H. Payne Whitney, Jr., was ever registered with the class of 1921. Yale University might well be dumbfounded at the...