Word: wager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varnish has also grown yellow on Langaon Mitchell's dialogue, which while occasionally clever and biting, cannot quite explain away all the foolishness of the plot. Practically every line is an epigram or pun of sorts ("Our marriage was a wager," "The grace before the soup is not as good as the dinner," "marry-go-round"), and this, too, is hard to sustain for three hours...
...concept in religion, the humanities and science--is praiseworthy, but the final result demonstrates too clearly his inability to manage material from such diverse sources. His information from the humanities is handled well; the religious philosophers get rather murky treatment, while many scientists are plainly misinterpreted. When Wager says, "biology teaches us that existence and increase are the supreme goods of life," he could not be more completely incorrect. This is precisely the kind of value judgment that good science most vigorously eschews...
...Wager is almost fanatically enthusiastic about world civilization. He feels it is something we must institute quickly, "while there is still time." Yet, by his own admission, a world society will be an immensely difficult thing, and very slow to build and put into operation. And his own marked preference for delineating the problem rather than proposing solutions may be symptomatic of doubts he holds for the ultimate practibility of a world civilization, a City...
...nuts lay buried. The noxious bacteria in the tea found the toxic substance in the acorns a perfect nutriment. The odoriferous gas you have inquired about is a little-known by-product of their metabolism, encountered only when the bacterial colonies are able to grow without restraint. I'll wager there won't be much green in the Yard for Commencement Exercises this Spring...
...British had refused to share. Calcutta's Marwaris moved from the shop-crowded Burrabazar to the financial district's Clive Street, where they set up curb markets and soon moved onto the exchange. Marwaris are India's best bookmakers, so fond of betting that they will wager on the sex of an unborn child or the number of pips in a tangerine flake...