Word: perplexing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Almanac; the curiosity that led him to make an experiment with lightning and kites that later electrocuted and imitator of it and the stories of his success at the French court crates a pictures of a great diplomat who was still unaffected and interested in the problems that perplex all of us. Professor Murdock will speak of Franklin this morning and also at the same time and place on Saturday...
...that street enough Arabs, mules, donkeys, children, and files to fill a street fourteen feet wide on the average. That would give you a good working idea of what the main artery of Biskra was like. It requires a combination of broken-field running and line plunging that would perplex even the redoubtable George Owen...
Although modern psychology no longer classifies bellicosity among the original instincts, its phenomenona continue to perplex the scientist and to disturb the moralist. The most conflicting claims are made for war: it is beneficial, necessary, and inevitable, or it is harmful, unnecessary, and willful...
...early and uncorrupted days, Raisuli was a theological student in the Mohammedan schools of Tetuan, and might today have been a muezzin--truly a romantic figure, but hardly likely to perplex the Spanish government. At present, he is an expert purveyor of hot water: his daily production floods the Spanish market with trouble. As long as Raisuli is doing the acrobatic in Tangier, that sector of the international map will pull the front pages. Meanwhile, he is an answer to those sceptics who doubt the existence of "real, live, kidnapping sheiks...