Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most radio shows laboriously present audience surveys and other statistical mumbo-jumbo to prove to sponsors that they can pull in listeners. None of this was necessary, however, when Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre of the Air was sold to Campbell Soup last week. Week before Mr. Welles had proved that his program had grip when his production of The War of the Worlds and the U. S. radio audience's gullibility had created a national panic. Mercury Theatre will replace Campbell Soup's Hollywood Hotel on CBS December...
Amid the squalor and duress of Britain's most "depressed area" (the South Wales mining district) a brilliant young physician, Andrew Manson, took his first medi-cal appointment. He scorned the mumbo-jumbo of outworn textbooks, went to the unprofessional lengths of helping dynamite a sewer at dead of night because he knew it responsible for a typhoid epidemic. Again & again in his crusading zeal "never to take anything for granted'' in Medicine he was thwarted by the indifference of senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners...
Edward F. Prichard 2L showed student opposition as well as faculty to be acute, declaring that now a teacher can be dismissed for any slight variation from the "beaten path of mumbo-jumbo that is too often the bane of our educational system...
...Much mumbo jumbo is heard about the important function of these institutions of higher learning in correlating and organizing the work in some of the more anarchic courses, or in helping the Freshman to find his footing in Harvard, or in this of that worthy purpose. Presumably some help is given, but few have the face to deny that the cash payment is usually made to facilitate the complete neglect of work (more extra-curricular activity, if you will) and not to direct the poor lost sheep to the proper shelf of the Widener reading room...
...This mumbo jumbo confusion of classics and culture is just the sort of thing which Harvard's bewhiskered sages like to pin on poor, confused President Hutchins out at Chicago. It is too bad we have to look at it here. They might give the non-Latinists diplomas written in English, or something like that...