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Inexperience Bowes, Major Edward (1874–1946) originator and master of ceremonies of the Amateur Hour on radio. [Am. Radio: Buxton, 149–150] variety show in which beginners try to prove their abilities. [TV: Misc.] a raw, inexperienced person; especially a new cowboy. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] (1904–1976) host of a television show starring amateurs. [TV: “Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour” in Terrace, II, 347] any unpracticed youth, especially new military officers. [Br. Folklore: Wheeler, 258] (plebeian) first or lowest class, especially at U.S. Military and Naval Academies. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] a novice; often an athlete playing his first season as a member of a professional sports team. [Sports: Misc.] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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With that he requested me to give his proposal my favourable consideration--saying that he would not like me to take such an important step unguardedly, since want of thought and impetuosity often spelt ruin to youthful inexperience, but that he hoped to receive an answer in the affirmative. Here, again, Magdalen's inexperience betrayed itself -- and here once more her resolution in attacking and conquering her own mistakes astonished everybody. Without supposing the personal essentiality of the man, it is evident that a change of the chief magistrate, at the breaking out of a war, or at any similar crisis, for another, even of equal merit, would at all times be detrimental to the community, inasmuch as it would substitute inexperience to experience, and would tend to unhinge and set afloat the already settled train of the administration. |
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