Word: dumbness
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...only in that slander which has claim to authenticity. On the other hand if the returns are small the indication will be that human nature considers a whispering gallery to be an instructive body even though, its members be blind, deaf, and as far as real facts are concerned--dumb...
...only inductive logic-from observation and experiment to hypothesis. He could not rest until he had tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...
...that primate of short-story critics, Mr. Edward J. O'Brien. It is like hearing that your favorite choir soloist has been engaged by the Metropolitan Opera. Says Mr. O'Brien, who reads bales of fiction per annum in professional detachment: "I suppose that those who are dumb have never had their feelings and experience interpreted so clearly before as ... by Barry Benefield." He gives thanks that these "short turns" have been brought together out of various magazines, for he ranks them, with the work of Sherwood Anderson, Manuel Komroff and Ernest Hemingway, as "the most distinguished...
...President disapproves of compulsory military training for U. S. youths because it engenders a militaristic mental attitude; the physical benefits derived from the training are of exceptional value, he believes. He told reporters last week that the fencing and dumb-bell exercise he got at Amherst have helped him through life...
...hours later a Dutch soldier, guarding the frontier at Eysden, was struck dumb when a man in a long military cloak approached him, hesitated, said: "I am the Emperor of Germany. Here is my sword...