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Word: nit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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...very rightly, too. These social attitudes are hard to build up and equally hard to hold; they are well worth emphatic support. But a closer examination of Governor Rolph, the man, would have elicited fewer surprised and pompous tut-tuts. Quite simply, the governor is an amiable nit-wit whose capacities as an administrator were taxed to the utmost when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made him nationally known--the unconditional refusal of Tom Mooney's petition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/29/1933 | See Source »

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