Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Various badly informed groups have attacked the appointment of Mr. Daniels with absurd and even calumnious statements. The Government of Mexico is interested in correcting the 'supposition' that the new American Ambassador has been named by his Government 'as a discourteous act embracing a stern and fearful warning...
...workman had been charged with sabotage. Few people took that very seriously. But the McDonald-Underwood story caused Navy-heckling Representative James V. McClintic of Oklahoma to demand, and get, an investigation by the Naval Affairs Committee. The Committee heard Goodyear-Zeppelin officials and Navy inspectors call the charges absurd. As a final gesture, the Committee set put to take a ride in the Akron. While the ship was being walked out of the dock before the Congressmen's eyes, a perverse wind dashed the Akron's tail against the ground, disabling her for weeks. Nevertheless, the Committee...
...citadel of Free Trade, has surrendered the position and taken to building an Empire preference unit. And the disease is as cumulative a one as the matter of armaments. If France raises her import or export duties, the other countries feel compelled to follow suit. Faced by such absurd but deliberate attempts to destroy all the advantages of the division of labor, it would seem to many that the nations would realize their folly and put an end to it. One might think that "if they all meet around the council-table, face to face, and discuss the matter quietly...
...word. And yet for the most part he is able to give fair estimates of their achievements. On Picasso, of whom he knows the least, he goes furthest wrong. After saying that Picasso's genius is so great that anything he may produce cannot be without value, an absurd supposition in reference to anyone, he compares him to Leonardo, and lapses into further unqualified superlatives. His discussion of Cocteau, on the other hand, is brilliant, and gives a new light on his extraordinary personality and his influence on the present generation...
Comparing the space given by TIME to basketball activities of the various sections one would think the basketball played in the territory including Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Iowa to be of an inferior type. ABSURD...