Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gosh, I'm Dumb!" As a gesture to U. S. public opinion, the trial of Cleveland's Roiderer last week was the first trial before the People's Court to which foreign correspondents have ever been admitted. Present also was U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had hired to defend dead-broke Roiderer a fashionable Berlin attorney...
...office to twit him about boondoggles and ancient safety pins were quickly sobered. He was mad clean through. "Investigate?" barked he. "No! There's nothing the matter. Those are good projects, all of them. People who don't understand foreign languages sometimes laugh when they hear them. Dumb people make fun of things they can't understand...
...these projects. Most of them will be continued and there will be a lot more of the same type. We haven't done enough for the white-collar people. . . . The only critics are people who want to abolish work relief and people who are too damned dumb to appreciate the finer things of life...
...precarious health. Publisher Ochs joined heartily in a staff meeting in the Chattanooga city room. Then with his brother Col. Milton Ochs and a few other relatives he went to a restaurant for luncheon. Brother Milton asked him what he wanted to eat. He sat dumb, not hearing, not seeing. Few hours later Death stopped the heart of Adolph Ochs, publisher of the New York Times...
Their criticism falls under four heads: (1) that class work carry more weight; (2) that sections be made smaller, with more emphasis on independent work and less on mastering the required number of facts; (3) that better section men be selected, especially in the sciences; and (4) that "dumb-bunny" sections be established, in every large course. The first suggestion can be dismissed as being financially impracticable and the result of expecting school methods of instruction in college. The same financial obstacles lie in the way of having smaller sections and more section hands to teach them. Objection to rote...