Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international Congress in 1924, the present quota system frankly discriminates against Southern and Eastern Europeans and Asians under the theory that people with English or Northern European names make better citizens. In view of the number of contributions made by the unfavored groups in the past, this thesis is absurd. In this respect the President's suggestion for a special, experimental quota of 5,000--to be distributed with regard not to nationality, but to cultural and technical skill--is a welcome prelude to a fulll-scale review of the whole concept of quotas based on national origins...
Brady last night affirmed his faith in the new officers, and said he knew of no "unprincipled radicalism" among the leaders. "The Conservative League's statement is ridiculous and absurd in the extreme," he said, and "a loud empty report aimed only at sensationalism...
...rights of man are at stake today throughout the world . . . Absurd and dangerous as socialism and the Russian experiment may be for mankind, allies and defenders for them have been found everywhere among intellectuals. The same is not true of freedom and the American experiment. This is a very serious situation, serious in view of the destiny of man, and so grave that one wonders . . . whether the world's intellectuals have not already cast their vote against freedom . . . "If the American intellectual were clearly aware of the reservoir of hope which his country represents for the entire world, would...
...favorable response found by the "jury-tapping" charges comes in part from centuries of lawyers treating the jury like a medieval mystery. A typically absurd example of this is the age-old rule of Vaise v. Delaval barring evidence of jurors' misconduct which comes from the jurors themselves--even though that misconduct may send a defendant to his death--and yet permitting an eavesdropper to testify on the same subject. To some degree there is sense in this exaggerated piety: jurors being human, attempts to root out the jury's defects might end up rooting out its virtues as well...
...state of the auto market. "Sales in 1955 exceeded the level justified by the economy," said Romney, and the industry now had to "pay the price" for borrowing from the future. The industry is also paying for "deteriorating market practices . . . price 'pack,' finance 'pack,' absurd, indefensible credit, misleading advertising, overproduction." But, added Romney, there was no need for Government intervention; the automobile industry would straighten itself...