Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person who takes the law in his own hands and commits an act of Violence. That lynching and violent personal revenge are subversive of law and order, and contrary to the spirit of modern jurisprudence has been demonstrated so irrefutably and so often as to render the proposed legislation absurd in the eyes of any thinking citizen...
Darkness finally brought to a close one of the most farcical games of baseball ever witnessed on Soldiers Field when umpire Barry called a halt at the end of the eighth inning yesterday while Harvard was leading Boston University by the absurd margin of 26 runs. The final score was 29-3. The epithet of "track-meet" could hardly be applied more appropriately than to yesterday's debacle when the Crimson batters pounded out a total of 27 hits assisted by eight errors on the part of the visiting nine...
...between the two instead of their present divorce. In this light, therefore, the suggestion is to be commended as a healthy awakening, but examined more closely it reveals two unfortunate tendencies. An equitable balance in the curriculum between things modern and things historical is highly desirable, but it is absurd to suppose that without a sound understanding of the past the student can hope to gain a firm foundation on which to base his attitude toward present difficulties. The Wisconsin report, in proposing almost complete emphasis on the present, disregards this fundamental and clothes its suggestion with inexcusable superficiality...
Evidently Mr. Wagner of Nebraska is not or never was a father. If so, his heart must be made of stone, for his statement accusing the Lindberghs of "petty treason'' is the most absurd accusation I have ever heard or ever hope to hear...
Nervousness and hurry, factors that every killer must cope with, are responsible for absurd mistakes. Dr. Magrath told of a man who in attempting to make the shot-gun murder of his wife appear a suicide, fastened a string to the trigger guard of the weapon instead of to the trigger itself...