Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward sports, or at least the Harvard one, coaches should realize that athletes simply cannot be approached on the subject of training in the way attempted yesterday. The demanded indiscriminate investigations by undergraduate athletes for the purpose of reporting teammates guilty of breaking training would be patently foolish and absurd. Such a course cannot be deprecated too strongly; it would severely injure the growth of a sane attitude toward sports...
Most indignant comment came from England, where all U. S. golf innovations are disgusting to golfers who abide by the regulations of the staid St. Andrews club. Said Sandy Herd: "Farcical!" Charles Whitcombe: "Absurd!" James Braid: "The walls would crumble!" Harry Vardon: "The very idea makes me angry...
...good friend, "The Patrick Henry of the Philippines" had his best chance of wrenching his land unconditionally free. In '99 and after, he had shed blood for independence. Now, smoking cigarets by the chain system, he found independence under the terms set by Congress "unjust and absurd." But with racial shrewdness (he is quarter-Spanish) he decided to hold his fire until the independence commission returns to present its arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative elections, which may violently split the majority party, will be in effect a plebiscite on H. R. 7233 by the islands...
...time he was 58. Stanley had had enough: he retired to the English countryside, was knighted. Once he met "Grand Old Man" Gladstone, who characteristically held forth on the absurd nomenclature visited by explorers on their discoveries. Two that riled him were the Gordon Bennett and Mackinnon-Mountains. "Who called them by those absurd names?" he boomed. Stanley had to admit that...
Rothermere for the Press & Journal, paying the absurd figure of ?750,000 to keep the enemy out of camp. In Hull, Gloucester, Bristol, Staffordshire, many another town, Rothermere.got a foothold. Wherever both camps had papers, there was a furious fight for circulation. In Newcastle, Rothermere planted his Evening World in opposition to Camrose's old established Chronicle. In 100 days he ran the World's circulation to 176,000, two-and-a-half times the Chronicle's. Baron Camrose wailed in protest against the Rothermere circulation method, which was to give free and hearty dinners plus free...