Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only your rate of tariffs which operates to discourage other countries' exports to you, but your complicated custom laws and your absurd methods of customs appraisal . . . The offhand way in which Arthur Motley brushed off this issue suggests that he does not realize that this is really the crux of the problem of two-way trade between Britain and the U.S. I believe that lecturing so complacently to the British under these circumstances is the sort of thing that can give your well-intentioned countrymen a reputation for brashness...
...that the Council is unrepresentative when the men on it were elected from every class and House in the College is absurd. As to the charge of dictating, there has not been one instance in the Council's history in which it has dictated anything to anybody. This is the worst smear campaign in the College's recent history...
...evident," says Seitz, "that an appreciable component of Congress is not aware of the conditions which must be met if we are to obtain the most from our scientific fraternity. For example, the continued partisan attacks on the top administration of the Atomic Energy Commission, on issues that appear absurd to most scientists, has probably done as much to impede the progress of that organization as could a number of well-placed Russian agents." What is needed, says Physicist Seitz, is a hard-hitting, imaginative agency like the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...Restoration comedy and as antisocial as a Marx Brothers movie, Nothing squeezes the juice out of the proposition that Britain's younger generation has turned hopelessly dull and solemn, leaving most of the fun & games to the oldsters. True, says Henry Green, the older generation may be slightly absurd in its romantic nostalgias, even more than slightly devious in its morals-but look at the postwar youngsters...
...purred Lewis. "I don't suggest that the Mine Workers will immediately become half-witted the minute the operators throw some absurd thing on the table, but we will analyze it with them. It is negotiable if they are strong enough to persuade...