Word: dumbness
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...need for teachers of "intellectual capacity [and] kindling personality": "They tell . . . of a sacred studies master who was trying to instill into the head of a rather dumb pupil the meaning of a certain parable, and he finally said, 'What is the matter with your brains, anyhow? The simple peasants of Galilee understood. . . .' And the boy floored him by answering, 'Yes, sir, but [they] had a pretty good teacher...
...Stopped Omnibus. Near the old Statehouse of the Confederacy he noted "one of those decent and dumb American churches which are so strangely possessed of the secret of minimizing, to the casual eye, the general pretension of churches...
...Rotten." Most coaches played dumb, professed not to know what the General was talking about. Only one, Coach Jess Neely of Rice, conceded that "the General might be right." The black market in footballers was so open that officials from 200 colleges who recently met in Chicago to consider and perhaps deplore it got nowhere. Down in the Southeastern Conference (Mississippi State, Georgia Tech, etc.), where so-called "grants-in-aid" to players are legal, hijacking of players from the two service academies was made not only legal but attractive. Though college football players are usually allowed only three years...
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
...bawled for violence: "I call on every red-blooded white man to use any means to keep the niggers away from the polls. If you don't understand what that means you are just plain dumb...