Word: gropes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood...
...wear out the body. All this comes out in the last half of the play. The first half is a murder mystery very much like that in any Broadway mystery play, except not so entertaining. The last acts resemble the average Provincetown experiment-variously acted and inclined to grope...
Slowly, with infinite care, the vast spaces of the insane are being plotted by science. Every day new data are recorded, new hypotheses proved. But until the time comes when all this vast field is completely charted, justice must continue to grope blindly in the path of duty. Of course the New Jersey jury were sincere. Of course they acted as best they could in the light of their poor knowledge. But the accuracy of their decision must continue a mystery until this variable, this indeterminate insanity is brought by science within the understanding of human justice...
...judges, the contestants, and the audience were forced to grope their way in the dark from the top floor of the building only to find the door locked. After much prying and pushing the door still remained firm and as the janitor was not to be found the group had to use a window as an exit...
When he wishes to make new chemical researches, no labor or thought is required of him. All is done by divine inspiration. "I never have to grope for methods: the method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new," says he. The conclusion is plain. Only those discoveries will be made which are in accord with the doctrines of the church, and if any discoveries do not agree with church tenets, it is a plain mandate to change the beliefs of the church to accord with the new revelations. If Darwin had only employed such methods...