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Word: intellection (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...implicit in the phrasing of its reports, which cannot fail to remind us of the measured and solemn, yet assured, judgements of the great nineteenth century German historians: "Professor X was thought by '53, on the whole, to be an insensible dullard. Some, however, found him a towering intellect and an insipiring teachers, etc. etc." But what does "on the whole" mean? And is "some" ten, twenty, thirty or forty precent? We are never given any forthright statement of proportions. I do not wish to challenge the good faith of the CRIMSON's writers, but surely, all will agree that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questions Confy Guide | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

...Roman Catholicism, said the dean, it "is a very successful method of mind cure . . . But with its arrogant exclusiveness and the submission of the intellect to authority, this totalitarian religion, formidable as it is, can never win the sympathy of any liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Gloomy Dean | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Medicine is becoming a social as well as a biological science. We would rather have a student with intellect . . . and a rounded capacity for life than one whose only view of humanity was gained as he passed from one laboratory to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Life | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...neuter pronoun," shouted Connally. ". . . Mr. President, allow me to say to the Senator from Missouri that he has a regular FBI intellect. He probes into these matters and imagines boogers in every bush. There are no boogers here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Texas Tom in the Bush | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...result of this type of education ... is a high-school graduate anxious to criticize his city's garbage-disposal system but perhaps incapable of interpreting a city ordinance on the subject. Yet he will not for a moment doubt his own capabilities, for his intellect has never been really challenged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1950 | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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