Word: shrug
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...unshorn, TIME holds no brief for crazy quilt paintings but stands by its estimate of Carnegie Prizewinner Georges Braque's The Yellow Cloth as a successful abstraction, for reasons given in its report on the Carnegie show (TIME, Oct. 25). Chances are that Leonardo da Vinci would shrug, smile, disagree with Reader Sullivan...
...baffling of the miscellaneous establishments is the Harvard Yenching Institute. On the average of nearly once a day the average Harvard man passes the Institute's imposing sign in Boylston Hall. He may be moved to investigate, but the old indifference all too quickly crops out, and with a shrug of his shoulders and possibly a remark such as "Let them yench," he will pass on his way. It takes an inquiring mind to find out that the Institute is carrying on research work for Chinese and Occidental scholars and that it supports several institutions in China and even allots...
...With a shrug, he concluded. "If any one disagrees with our fundamental assumption...
These words could be read as meaning that the Cabinet are in a mood to shrug off some of Britain's most solemn treaty obligations. Before Europe could be shocked, however, Sir Samuel's entourage explained that the First Lord's words were an expression of the fact that Britain is not bound to send any particular kind of aid although she is bound to send aid and is true to this obligation...
...citizens in Russia would be preserved (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). Comrade Litvinoff, having secured Soviet recognition, went home to Moscow via Rome. When he was asked by the Eternal City's Catholic journalists whether the church clause was going to hold water he replied with his characteristic wink & shrug. Last week in Moscow, sudden and final violation of what President Roosevelt had thought would be an effective promise, occurred simultaneously with honors for Comrade Litvinoff...