Word: glib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe and America. Among his several books is the well-known "Conversion." In his field of near-eastern ancient history, sociology and religion, he is the respected authority. Nock is an immutable believer in the disciplined education, preferring a mastery over a small ground to a widely spread glib acquaintance. To him the greatest social crime is the easy school. In this he speaks from experience, for, born of humble parentage, it was only his determination which lifted him far above his class. Not yet has he slackened the pace, for the still does all his work from source material...
...Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless. . . . The people loved him ... not because they were deceived in him, but because they understood him thoroughly; they said of him proudly: 'He's a slick little bastard.' " Next time they threw out Percy Sr. "Wai," said an old man, wet with tobacco juice...
Having less need for an extra stop watch since Tommy Harmon stopped running, glib, studious Bill Stern, top NBC sportscaster, turned his over to Socialite-Explorer Charles Suydam Cutting, chairman of the American Committee for Defense of British Homes, who is collecting 5,000 stop watches to send (with binoculars, small arms, steel helmets) to Britain to help ward off invasion...
...offers himself to the nation on a platter of self-contradicting statements and promises. Roosevelt is a brilliant politician, who was pushed by circumstances into the role of a courageous fighter for the underprivileged; who for two years has stalled and backtracked; and who today despite his glib assurances that all is well in the nation, must know that nine million men cannot find jobs because the jobs are not there...
...been so potent in the affairs of men as in the past 14 decades. The years from Anno Domini 1800 to Annum Domini 1940 have been the period in which he has moulded mankind as never before. This flat statement, a shock to many who have long accepted the glib belief that "the world is drifting away from Christianity," was not made by an ignoramus. It was made by Kenneth Scott Latourette. Professor of Missions and Oriental History at Yale University. Three years ago Dr. Latourette started writing a monumental six-volume History of the Expansion of Christianity. He made...