Word: scoffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then continued to wham-all through the night and all through the day. Though six out of ten balls landed on the green (131 yards away), he failed to get another ace in 2,289 more attempts. After he had lifted his leaden arms for the 3,094th time, Scoffer Wagner admitted defeat. "After you hit the green, I guess it's just luck," he sighed-discovering by painful experience what most golfers have long known...
...Road Back (Universal). The night of November 10, 1918, a group of bedraggled German soldiers talk over the chance of an early peace. Says one scoffer: "Aw, the War's never going to end. It'll go on forever." They roll over to sleep in their dugout like rats in a rain-soaked furrow...
...foremost scoffer at the gene theory of heredity, England's formidable, bushy-browed Biologist William Bateson, went to the Columbia University laboratories of Thomas Hunt Morgan, examined the data, looked at the jars of fruit flies, stared down the microscopes, announced his conversion. Since then there has been little doubt among geneticists that the chromosomes in the germ cells are the theatres of heredity, that the ultimate agents, called genes, which transmit unit characters, occupy definite and fixed positions along the spindly, crooked chromosomes. Since then fame has come to Dr. Morgan and his flies, and to some...
...Scoffer...
While the simile may be farfetched; I am reminded of a scoffer who might have said: ''This guy Christ used to be a carpenter. What does he know about...