Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yipsol Mind. Outside his family, Reuther has no intimates and few friends. Glowering John L. Lewis, the founder of the C.I.O., is one of the few labor leaders who have publicly expressed themselves on the subject of Walter Reuther. He referred to him as a "pseudo-intellectual nitwit." Labor leaders generally dislike his metallic personal qualities-the iron will, the tinny personality, the brass nerve. They distrust his power and his policies...
When he concluded that the sap rises in trees because the spring wind causes a pumping action in the branches, a staffer, missing the chance for an argument-provoking essay in pseudo science, made the mistake of writing a Trib story setting out the scientific facts. The Colonel noted: "Our sap expert missed a trick...
...kind of Babbitt, but without old George F.'s fundamental decency and guilelessness. The U.S. has become quite fond of the Babbitt who read Edgar Guest, but a pseudo-sophisticated Babbitt who reads The New Yorker is almost unforgivable...
HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE FIRST MAGAZINE OF NATIONAL CIRCULATION WILLING AND INTERESTED ENOUGH TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT [JAN. 31]. YOUR FACTS STAND OUT IN BOLD CONTRAST TO THE EMOTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION SPREAD AROUND THE COUNTRY BY THE PSEUDO-CONSERVATIONISTS AND WATER-GREEDY CALIFORNIA INTERESTS...
...Zurich, treating a few patients and keeping a keen eye on the most difficult patient of all-the world at large. He has never stopped writing, revising his concepts, or enlarging the scope of his inquiries. He has explored medieval alchemy, not because he has any interest in its pseudo-chemical aspects, but because he considers it interesting psychologically: for the most part, he sees the alchemists as seekers after original religious experience outside the permissible limits of the medieval church...