Word: scepticism
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...first was an enormous electrical appliance. One janitor, in the know about the science of electricity, calls the work a "brain-tester," while another janitor, a sceptic, firmly believes the gadget is a do luxe Sing-Sing model of an electric chair...
...family, he spends about $5,000 yearly on his researches. He has acquired 14,000 volumes, some of them rare, on every phase of his hobby from talking animals to stage wizardry. He started doing magic tricks at the age of 8, published a psychic play called The Sceptic at 17. In 1925 he founded and became director of the National Laboratory for Psychical Research, which he later turned over to the London Council for Psychical Investigation. He would like to see London University institute a chair of psychic research with himself as professor, has offered the university his library...
...stabilization. It appears, however, that the bait tastes quite differently to different palates. Though the farmers may be slightly mollified, Wall Street is not. "The money-changers" are very unhappy about the whole thing. It goes against the natures of such simple idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just another slogan for that hardly defined but always suspicious phenomenon: inflation. The President is coming face to face with the sad fact that farmer and banker are betting...
...hand in protest. Considerable exaggeration undoubtedly in many instances gives rise to a far too optimistic view towards meetings which are often more objective spectacles breeding little mutual understanding. In an atmosphere tuned up to the scale of fifty thousand spectators it becomes increasingly more convincing for the sceptic to smile away the mention of a genuine relationship between the two participating student bodies...
...exercise of this function. Certainly the educated and cultured man, whether rightly or not, feels that his life is preferable to that of the most comfortable and opulent moron. The choice of being Socrates unhappy or a contented pig is not a tactful problem to present to the business sceptic. The college, then, justifies its existence to a graduate, in presenting him with a complete education. It is mrely fortunate that the presence of these educated men has, even indirectly, such constructive results on society that it may convince future Croesuses who would otherwise never admit that...