Word: skeptical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald won the first major-league game he pitched. Then he won another and another and another. Baseball fans began to notice the Yanks' rookie. Skeptics said he was just lucky: he was aided by the heavy hitting and smart fielding of his mighty teammates. But after he had won nine games in a row, even the toughest skeptic had to admit that the Yankees were not making Donald but that Donald was helping make the Yankees. Last week, trying for his 13th consecutive victory, Rookie Donald, whose outstanding assets are a sneaky fast ball, a gimlet...
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Like Biblical Gideon, who required three signs from the Lord before he went forth to smite the Midianites, University of Chicago's Professor Harry David Gideonse*is a skeptic and a warrior. Gideonse battles, however, not for the Lord but for the Scientific Method. This made him a natural opponent of his chief, Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who believes that there is a hierarchy of truths which transcends laboratory evidence...
Seriously, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is our nomination for the picture of the year; it gives new life to the cynic, new hope to the skeptic, new faith to the agnostic; to the weary it gives strength, to the fool wisdom, to the frenzied calm. In short, every man, woman, and child in the country should consider it their duty to live, love, and learn with Snow White...
...lucrative, mass-appealing, Macfadden Magazines* is a remarkable character named Charles Fulton Oursler. A former law clerk and Baltimore reporter, Mr. Oursler has written a successful melodrama (The Spider), a number of novels, a series of detective stories, and a book on travel and religion called A Skeptic in the Holy Land. Mr. Oursler is a capable prestidigitator and, say some, an expert ventriloquist. Tweed-coated, narrow-chinned, high of brow, Mr. Oursler has a vaguely ministerial appearance. This facile and versatile literary man does his writing and conducts his employer's magazines on a cliff's edge...