Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorial Hospital and foremost U. S. cancer authority, found cancer patients and physicians still in a hubbub over the Press's garbling of a paper he had read to the Congress. In an effort to erase from public memory such headlines as CANCER CURE AIM IS CALLED ABSURD and SAYS NUDISM BREEDS CANCER, Dr. Ewing last week issued a statement on cancer for laymen. Excerpts...
...statement that 'the idea of discovering a cure for cancer is absurd' should have read: 'The idea of discovering a single universal cure for all cancers is absurd...
Although the description of these heavier Chemistry and Biology courses in the catalogue almost invariably trail off into a coy "six hours of laboratory work per week required", many instructors and almost all students will testify that this is an absurd statement. It is conclusively established that these courses require as much time as German B and French B; there are only two roads now open to the Departments involved. They may, on the one hand, grant two course credit for their courses: this, of course, will require other adjustments; requirements for concentration will have to be altered to correspond...
...Absurd!" says science to notions that sunspot activity brings influenza epidemics, wars, business prosperity. Prosperity undeniably reigned in 1928, the last sunspot maximum; the depression and the post-War slump were undeniably not far from sunspot minima. Carried further back, the correspondence collapses...
...students and admirers I feel bound publicly to criticize the absurd caricature of Professor W. C. Abbott set forth in the October 19th copy of your paper. Of his fondness for milkshakes and black canes, I know little and care even less. Perhaps his generosity to the blind newsdealer offsets his smug self-complacency. But to dismiss his contributions to historical scholarship and his activities as a teacher as "dull" or trivial shows a singular ignorance of the former, and a failure to appreciate the real wisdom underlying his teaching methods...