Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best chance of completing the map of the world, judging by the past performance of their craft, though Byrd's Fokker Josephine Ford had flown with astonishing success where Amundsen's planes failed last year. There would be fame enough for one and all. Yet it was absurd to deny rivalry. Each party of polar pilgrims carried flags to plant, or drop, for the U. S. or Norway, upon whatever continent or islands have lain hidden to date in the polar fastnesses...
...place. That the recent demonstration of the truth that Aristotle was a trifle sanguine in naming man a thinking being was significant of nothing but a moronic joie de vivre, nevermore to darken the doors of Widener is obvious. The moving pictures have enough material on hand for absurd caricature of Harvard life without aid from the class...
...antic mechanicals of the Saddlers' Trade Union met and reinstalled Friedrich Ebert as a member of their fraternity. It mattered not to them that Germany's first President is long since dead (TIME, March 9, 1925). Still less were they mindful of his exceedingly pat remark: "It is as absurd to call me 'the Saddlemaker-President' as to call a great commander 'Sergeant-Fieldmarshal' because he once held the lower rank...
...Benjamin M. Day, by profession a downtown lawyer, by inclination a onetime president of the Young Men's Republican Club. Said Major Curran: "Ben Day is an honest, able fellow!" Lawyer Day said that, as he had never made a special study of immigration matters, "it would be absurd for me to discuss plans...
...hypothetical case of inherited prowess, this would be absurd. As an actual occurrence, therefore, it is interesting...