Word: skeptically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Collegiate Montaigne Society, devoted to the memory of that Greatest Skeptic of Them All, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, warmly agrees that scratching one's head is good for more in the modern world than the dandruff fingernail test...
...Philippines, which had offered 5,000 men to General MacArthur, 20 Congressmen resolved to go along with the troops as a committee. Then they read the fine print of their own resolution: they had agreed to go as combat infantrymen. Nobody backed out, but, a Congressional skeptic scoffed: "Half of them will surely flunk the physical exams...
...Skeptic Harbour went right on checking Ripley items for himself, last month wrote "the mayor of Delhi" to ask about an Indian dancing girl described as the "Human Top." Supposedly she could whirl continuously for 24 hours without breaking any of 24 raw eggs suspended on strings from her head...