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...With atomic bombs and radar in mind, the skeptic may well ask what the physicist thinks he has been doing during these past five years, if not physics...
...into his office. Pleased as an outsized Punch, he "announced that the Argentine Government had abolished all press censorship. Henceforth the newsmen might cable their stories direct, without subterfuge, delay or fear of retaliation. The correspondents were properly gratified, gave hard-hitting Braden much of the credit. Only one skeptic remarked: "Seems we heard this before...
...easily into the groove of Texas politics, where a good show is worth more than a bundle of issues. As a youth he began patterning his clothes and hairdo after William Jennings Bryan's. He sharpened his naturally agile tongue on the works of Texas' once-famed skeptic, Brann the Iconoclast. He became an enthusiastic lodge-joiner and speaker at fraternal gatherings far & wide. By the time he was ready to run for Congress in 1916 he knew all the tricks...
...conversion of Sir Oliver Lodge also moved Sir Max Beerbohm to draw one of his funniest imaginary confrontations, in which Convert Lodge and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, a British skeptic about spiritualism, look at each other and wonder at an ectoplasmic enigma...
Having been a maverick philosopher who strayed into law, Holmes increasingly became a maverick justice who strayed into philosophy. His skepticism ("The skeptic cannot be a pessimist") brought him into conflict with the uncritical optimism of those liberals and progressives who claimed him for their own. Said he: "I believe that the wholesale social regeneration which so many now seem to expect . . . cannot be affected appreciably by tinkering with the institution of property, but only by taking in hand life. . . . The notion that with socialized property we should have women free and a piano for everybody seems...