Word: sheepish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which he has tried carefully to conceal the large part of his case. When you object that the plan is, as a brief, inadequate, that you see his little game, and that you have already seen it many times among his predecessors in your course, he looks a bit sheepish, but you still have to struggle with him week by week to make him give you a thorough presentation of the whole case, so that you may judge his work on its real merits. The graduate coaches complain of this as heartily as you or 1. The fact means simply...