Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruled out schools in tenement neighborhoods, swank suburban academies, the entire pre-school group of children in Colorado who for some reason tested too high. Some questions had to be discarded. Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons cannot? What can cat do that dog cannot? What can sun do that moon and stars cannot? Chief worry of Tester Terman, besides that of having any of his 258 questions published...
Momentous to every mistress in France last week was an unexpected decision by the country's highest court, La Cour de Cassation. Its sprightly old men, who would be considered insipid and absurd if they did not keep their own quota of mistresses, found on their calendar in a single day three cases of the same type: a master has died in an accident, and his wife and children and mistress are seeking justice. The mistress produces to the court letters from her late master, rent receipts, paid grocery bills and other evidence establishing that...
...Senator Bailey of North Carolina who asked whether Mr. Ashurst did not say after the Supreme Court's NIRA decision that among the "unjust criticisms" leveled at the President was the charge that he intended to enlarge the Court. Senator Ashurst at that time said: "A more ridiculous, absurd and unjust criticism of a President was never made. No person whose opinion is respected has favored attempting such a reckless theory and policy...
...there are many issues in every corporation which can be settled only by a conference with the top management. Furthermore, these issues are likely to be the very ones which are of the most concern to the workers Mr. John L. Lewis is correct when he said: "It is absurd for such a corporation to pretend that its policies are settled locally...
...noting that 98% of the French are NOT Jews, roundly declared that if 98% of the French were Jews, the remaining 2% of Frenchmen would have a much tougher time than do the 2% of Jews in France today. Roared Popolo d'ltalia, tongue in cheek, on this absurd proposition: "It is clear, in view of the ferocious exclusiveness of the Jewish tribe, that Christians would be totally banned from public life in France and doomed to be slaves, toiling in order to permit Jews to celebrate their Sabbath in complete rest!" This is the kind of nonsense Adolf...