Word: skeptical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many hours later those same newsmen and photographers rode up the Bay. Once more in their respective newspaper offices, they were greeted by skeptic city editors with the usual dubious grunts. Conversation in one Manhattan city-room ran something like this...
...read the prize-winning plan were optimistic of its practicability. A chief skeptic cited his chief objection. Congressman James Montgomery Beck of Philadelphia, who was chosen for the Hearst Award jury for his knowledge of Constitutional law, wrote a dissenting opinion in which he said...
THIS is a skeptic age--and such periods have never been conducive to poetry, at least of an epic scale. One can readily see how mediocre verse fits in with the skeptic's view of things--it gives him cause to crab at the age's low level--and how their mutual dependency makes them thrive under such consoling companionship. At the same time, but perhaps not so patently, one may see how great poetry must be irritating to the skeptic. But it certainly consoles those with a larger and deeper philosophy of life. One feels as the one ought...
Politics. Being a gambler, the farmer is a skeptic and like all skeptics he is willing to believe unpleasant things. Thus, for example, when politicians tell him, for their own purposes, that the tariff discriminates against him, he believes it. Were the politicians honest, they would say that the tariff favors manufacturers, which is very different. But instead of mere jealousy, the farmer has been made to feel that he suffers downright injury from the manufacturers' tariff. Similarly, ever since the Government fixed farm prices as a War measure, the farmer has been told, and he believes, there...
George F. Baker's six million dollars' worth of confidence in the service which the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration can do for society, should be enough to disarm any skeptic. If there be some, however, who still doubt the practicability of academic training as preparation for important place in the world of active business, they may be referred to still another pertinent argument. At the dedication of the school's great flew buildings on Saturday, Professor Edwin F. Gay, the institution's first dean, told the story of a prosperous business man, an admirer of West Point methods...