Word: scoffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion: As a matter of fact, the Argentines have the very best reasons for regarding the lizzard as worthy of protection. No doubt the latter is as familiar a sight down there as the common cat is in this country. It is to say the least, unmannerly to scoff at the actions of our South American neighbors. The American Press should be very careful as to how it brings into ridicule the customs and traditions of a foreign people. It is a point much more worthy of discussion as to whether the animal seen is really a mesozoic Plesiosaurus...
Last year, when psychological tests were blossoming on every hand, most of us were inclined to scoff, Columbia adopted them for entering students, and other colleges also were reported to look on them with favor. But still we were sceptical. Then Mr. Edison's questionnarie and a hundred other such rigamaroles seemed to reduce the whole matter to an absurdity...
...that they are in any way left out of it, or that the cheers which greet each announcement of the score board at the Union or on Soldiers Field are less effective than those which are three hundred miles nearer the scene of action. Indeed, many of those who scoff at "telepathy", which science tells us is the up and coming art of the decade, will today be forced to pin their faith on the power of thought. So if the players in the Palmer Stadium seem to move with more than human power, let no one be surprised...
...world. It was largely due to his energy--often misdirected perhaps--that the League of Nations is actually in existence; his enthusiasm made what was held to be a dream a reality. We are so close to the man that it is easy to throw stones, easy to scoff at the worship he received in Europe. His faults blind the virtues which others...