Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dumb because you know...
There is only one school; tutoring is for 5% of the college; either for students who have fallen behind, or "dumb Freshmen, who are pretty well weeded out by Sophomore year. No one, as far as I know, ever took a course and purposely overent or loafed with the express idea of going to the tutoring bureau," Landman stated...
...Jersey City, Joseph Soldi, seven-year-old deaf mute, saw flames shooting from windows of his apartment house, shouted: "Mama, fire!" When she reached the street, he was dumb again, could only weep...
...Repeatedy warned that resistance would be fatal, dazed by surprise, their spirit broken since Munich anyhow, crowds greeted the first armored cars in Prague's streets in dumb despair. Later in the day they grew defiant. Whistles and jeers greeted each new squadron. Groups sang the Czech anthem and wept openly. Some shouted "Pfui! Pfui! go back home!" But the only physical resistance Herr Hitler's tanks met was a volley of snowballs. Down in Prague's Jewish district there was terror. Two lovers shot themselves, a couple jumped from their apartment window. By week...
...French asked their Ambassador in Tokyo to ask the Japanese what it was all about. The British were "in touch" with the French. The Dutch and the Americans looked dumb...