Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nominees for the office, they triumphantly declared, and no legal way to name any. That a city of 1,014,128 registered voters could hold a write-in election and "select a Mayor by such a plurality or majority as will fairly express the public will is a manifest absurdity." When the application of a law is manifestly absurd, the law should be invalidated. The Court cited many a legal authority, for that principle. Among them: Samuel von Pufendorf...
...store clerk who was only 70% accurate in making change would soon be fired. Concluding that a 70% passing mark is equally absurd in school arithmetic, "cooperative" classes in New York City high schools-whose students attend classes and work at outside jobs in alternate weeks-have made 100% the passing mark in arithmetic tests. Last week the assistant director of these classes reported that 79% of her pupils flunked...
...wearing short pants look absurd in these serious, austere surroundings. Grown men with hairy legs barely covered and short panties resemble ridiculous absent-minded professors. To be sure there was a short-pants campaign last year . . . but this mediocre idea proved a failure...
...hasten to answer your interesting letter . . . and to say most emphatically that TIME should not go into the business of feeding a lot of pap to Latin Americans. They know plenty about our faults and it is absurd to try to cover these faults for the sake of a few timid people at home...
...some 750,000 young U.S. citizens, the question was absurd. These recently turned 21-year-olds had registered for the draft July 1, had their numbers drawn last week in Washington. Government bigwigs, 50 draftee and volunteer noncoms, World War I veterans, reached successively into the same glass jar used for the World War I draft and the first draft of War II, extracted 800 opaque, fireproof capsules. Inside each was a slip with a number corresponding to the order in which the 21-year-olds had registered (thousands in different draft districts had the same numbers). First number drawn...