Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original subscriber who was a skeptic at first. I asked TIME to give me an accurate and readable survey of the most important world news. It has not failed...
...false. Mr. Dunworth cited the interesting case of Mrs. Thompson, a well known medium who professed to be capable of producing a mysterious substance from the spirit world which she called Ectoplasm. At one of her seances she unfortunately wrapped the Ectoplasm around the neck of an extreme skeptic. The suspicious gentleman promptly bit into the substance to discover its nature, whereupon Mrs. Thompson screamed and retired to nurse the teeth marks in her arm. It appears to be true, according to Mr. Dunworth that there have been more fake spiritualists among women than men, but that...
Philosopher, Artist, Skeptic, Sage...
There was a time in the rude past when the cheering stranger extended his right hand to show that it concealed no treacherous dirk. The skeptic seized it to make sure. Like the doffing of helmets, this medieval precautionary measure has persisted to an age when it is usually unnecessary; the deliberate murderer nowadays shoots with his left hand quite as skilfully as with his right. And with the advance of medical science has come the knowledge that this apparently harmless custom is a dangerous spreader of disease germs. President Coolidge is doubtless acting for the health of the nation...
...fault-finding will be the best result of the referendum. It is necessary to have at least glanced over the Plan in order to comment upon it; and this requires more than ordinary exertion. And no one is more essential to this American democracy than the critical level-headed skeptic...