Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calculated the average College gift at $2.95, a figure that was "more than satisfactory," but refused to even estimate the average donation of these University members solicited by mail. "The figure would be absurd," he stated...
...sense. And surely Mr. Cobb does not contend that the mob of cat-callers had any intention of engaging in serious discussion, or that they attended the meeting with any purpose other than that of disruption. To call the representatives of such a mob "responsible" is manifestly absurd...
...thumping Tory gain of 13,000 votes had come mostly at the expense of the rapidly evaporating Liberal Party. Bennett polled so few votes-less than one-eighth of the total-that he forfeited the ?150 election deposit intended to discourage "absurd and futile" candidacies...
...Unless a woman can earn $4,000 a year-or maybe $5,000," declared ex-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, "I think it is absurd, antisocial, and uneconomic for her to work outside the home...
With the development of pure science came the foundation of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and this was the handwriting on the wall for the Lawrence Scientific School, for it was absurd for the University to have a schism in its science training...