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Word: morones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whistling is an unmistakable sign of the moron. We might call it a part of his 'defense mechanism.' After he has set up his psychological barricade of sullenness, he sounds a note of war in his foolish whistling. He resolves not to care. He's right and the world wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whistling Morons | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Senator Borah, quizzed at Chicago, growled: "Any man who says all whistlers are morons must be a moron himself. When I feel like whistling, I whistle. But I rarely feel like whistling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whistling Morons | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...finding it, she would utilize the "inferior" one. An 8th grade student in school, she was found by Teacher Friendly's test (the standard Stanford-Binet test, said she) to have an Intelligence Quotient of 63-seven less than necessary to escape commitment. Teacher Friendly called Helen a moron, offered additional reasons why she should be sterilized: "The girl herself may turn out all right, but I don't think we want any of her progeny in this community . . . not the kind of stuff that makes good citizens . . . shiftless . . . little moral stamina though she knows the difference between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Friendly Test | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...four room. What I would do to you! I'd blacken your eyes and give you some real American spirit and do for you what your parents should have done. . . . We spend billions in this country for schools and what have we educated here-a mongrel and a moron. . . . I have six kiddies myself and my oldest girl is ten. She knows who God is and the laws of the country. Down at my house we have a cat-o'-nine-tails. I show it, and that is all . . . that is needed. . . . I am not going to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eye-Blacker | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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