Word: dumbness
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Many undergraduates think of the Corporation as a deaf, dumb, and blind giant who stumbles along from century to century without ever recognizing the needs and opinions of students. The news that the Corporation has approved the Provost's plans to open and maintain a Student Activities Center undoubtedly comes as a surprise to these cynics. The Student Activities Center is a project that the College both needs and desires, and it is only fair that the University be commended for taking action--although the action has been four years in coming...
...Messrs. Eliot, was the increasingly cynical young man who wrote verse as polished and as sharp as a Guardsman's sword. He created a gallery of unforgettable characters: Mr. Apollinax, the faun-like, fragile embodiment of the dry intellect (whose "laughter tinkled among the teacups"); Apeneck Sweeney, the dumb incarnation of a brutal age; Grishkin, the musky, eternally feline feminine...
...Without Fleas. Monica's old friends did their best to wise her up. One of them said she was like "a piano, half of whose keys had gone dumb for want of use." The friend added: "What would really do you good would be six months on a battleship...
...adding machine, compared to one of Bessie's breed, is a dumb, limited brute. It accepts numbers through its keyboard and "remembers" them by the setting of its mechanism. When the operator gives a command by pressing another key, the machine adds or subtracts the numbers in its "memory." Then it stops, waiting for another command...
This time John Wayne is the hardbitten U.S. Marine sergeant who runs his squad by the book. John Agar flashes his dimples petulantly as the softheaded malcontent who turns out to be manful after all. Also present or accounted for: the dumb rookie, the natural-born comedian from Joisey City, the blowhard who lets his buddies down, the Greek who calls everybody "Sport," the kid too young to die (who dies), and the squarest-jawed bit players that Republic could find...