Word: scoffers
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...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...
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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...
...Stuttgart's Schwabischer Merkur, old Father Bogoyavlenski tells how Schoolboy Stalin, when baited by a scoffer with Russia's old rigmarole, "beat the impious one so mercilessly that he had to be sent to the hospital...
...with the barons of banking. But he is oppressed ever by something worse than poverty, by a feeling that what he creates does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than his bite and who probably is a good fellow at heart; that he does not count in a land that produces eighty-story buildings, motors by the million and wheat by the billions of bushels...