Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Applicants to the University have often questioned this reputation; their assurance of its exaggeration is echoed by those already here, and most of those who have been here in the past. For it becomes a little absurd when vague charges are balanced, for example, against the record of 174 Harvard men who are president or directors of the country's hundred largest industrial corporations, the University's eight Nobel prize winners, four senators, twenty-five congressmen, and three governors, to mention only the most prominent. It is then indeed difficult to believe in the 'red' reputation of a university which...
...Barak's fast went on and his husky frame shrank, letters and telegrams began piling up at his bedside. A committee for "Freedom of Conscience" plastered towns and villages with posters. The newspapers joined in, and most agreed with Zmanim, which editorialized: "The legal situation is absurd." Ranged against repeal of the religious marriage law was the force of Israel's religious parties and of those Jews who fear that mixed marriages may dilute or destroy the separate racial identity of the Jewish people. "One out of every three Jewish men in the U.S. wed Christian women," said...
...Administration approved absurd demands for tariff protection-or even approved all the recommendations of the U.S. Tariff Commission-the Reciprocal Trade program would collapse. While fighting for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade program in his Foreign Trade Bill, the President has also asked for the right to lower tariffs at his own discretion within specified limits. The diplomatic twins of foreign good will and fiscal health, the President has realized, rely upon trade with the United States. Aid is no longer a realistic alternative to trade. Americans are no longer willing to give economic doles, and European...
...magazine's other editor, Angus S. Fletcher 3G, added, "It is absurd to complain about something like this. We intend to remove our posters in a week or so when people are tired of them; they are even fastened by a special paste which dissolves in the rain...
...pretty absurd," Eldridge said, "for the new planning board and the election committee to give an authoritative statement that they are guiltless, when they themselves are implicated in these reports of wrong-doing." For the good of the club, he added, an impartial committee should be appointed to refuse the charges...