Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like that to be made very clear. As far as I know, I am not given to fibbing, and you ask questions and I answer them as I know them." Senator Ashurst: "I think Senator Jones' question is most appropriate, and if I had been as quick a thinker as he is I would have asked it myself. Now, you came here-Senator Wheeler went to your house with two other gentlemen and brought you here?" Miss Stinson: "Yes, sir." Senator
...conventionalities of business through When an officer of the law makes a personal investment in a corporation which is liable to come before him officially and says that in the safe he lost money by it, a mass of the people acquit him of wrong doing; the straight thinker knows that his error was in making the investment at all losses or gains have nothing to do with the question...
...Crile is known the world over not only as a super-surgeon, but as an incisive and original thinker in biology and social psychology. He is a foremost specialist in surgery of the thyroid gland. He has devised methods of avoiding surgical shock by a combination of local and gen- eral anaesthetics (nitrous oxide and novocaine) which he calls " anoci-association." He studied in Ohio, Vienna, London, Paris, and has won more medical prizes than he can stagger under. During the War he was a Colonel in charge of a base hospital. In peace time he is a professor...
...literary levels are beyond criticism. The essay on "Intellectuals and Roughnecks", for example, ought to be read--forcibly or otherwise--to every young "writer" or "literary man" or "thinker" under twenty-five years of age. It contains some things we have wanted to say ourself for a long time, but have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare...
THOMAS PAINE. "Oh what fun it is to be a rebel," says Mr. Bradford. Paine "was a commonplace rebel, entirely practical." Not educated, not a deep thinker, lacking humor, but a master of burning words with a splendid ardor for democratic ideals. Mr. Bradford sums up the case for Paine and his detractors: "Here is a man who upset the world and you say he did not brush his clothes...