Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most ruthlessly efficient city machines since Boss Tweed held sway in Gotham, that Republic Steel must henceforth stop housing workers in the temporary quarters set up in the Chicago plants. This is because the Company is "violating city health and building ordinances", a statement so palpably absurd, when the temporary living conditions established inside the plants are examined, that it falls of its own weight. Further the company cafeteria is now supplying gratis better food and more of it than the men themselves would probably buy. Mayor Kelly's action is simply what one expects from a prominent demagogic leader...
...with his wife in a hotel in Keene, N. H., 30 miles from Greenfield. Nevertheless, he was charged with assault with intent to murder, and held in custody. Released when Vermont relatives raised his $10,000 bail, old Mr. Elder snorted that old Mr. Norton's story was absurd. Said he darkly: "I think I get the idea of this thing, but the less said about it the better...
...only by being forced to pay 14% royalties or less on the stolen oil. Next year a special investigating committee found that Standard had also been tapping the State pool with vertical wells. Standard offered to pay $100,000 in back royalties-an offer which the State rejected as absurd...
...that the U. S. was about to reduce the price of gold from $35 to $25 per oz. So bad was the break in gold shares that an investigation was loudly demanded in the House of Assembly with the big mining companies accused of manipulating their own stocks. "Absolutely absurd and fantastic," cried old General Jan Christiaan Smuts last week, speaking as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice. "The trouble we have to deal with here is not manipulation but much more serious. It is about the future of gold...
...Race is most often mouthed by those who claim superiority because of their lineage. Debased in this way, it remains "little more than a slogan of mass snobbery . . ." Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic in the world unless he exists in a remote part of Sweden or at the source of a Norwegian fjord, and even there he may have Mongoloid Lappish blood. To scientists a "pure race" is almost an abstraction; anyway, the greatest cultural achievements have been produced by racially mixed peoples...