Word: skepticisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
Although the skeptic will claim that it proves very little, there can be no doubt that this year's squad has attained a vastly more efficient aspect than at any time during the early weeks last fall. Even bearing in mind the fact that the C team line is undoubtedly far weaker than even the early Crimson opponents, some of the offensive drives staged by the A and B elevens seem to indicate that they pack a potential punch...
Died. Lincoln Steffens, 70, famed old-time muckraker; of heart disease; in Carmel, Calif. A bearded, sparkling, elfish skeptic, he exposed Tammany's Boss Croker, Cincinnati's Boss Cox, publicized Cleveland's Reformer Tom Johnson, Wisconsin's Reformer Robert La Follette, concluded in his Autobiography that bosses "seemed more honest" than reformers...