Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what no young M. P. is supposed to do: criticized his Party's leader on the floor. Blurting out with evident sincerity but without much coherence against Mr. Chamberlain's "jeering pettifogging party speeches," he said all year he had had to dispel to his constituents the "absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more diffi. cult from now on. "I frankly say that I despair when I listen to speeches like that to which I've listened this afternoon." Then, despairing Member Cartland trooped off to the smoking room to abstain...
...Republics of France and of America the president is of an extrusive kind. His office has been fashioned on the monarchic model and his whole position is anomalous. He has to try to be ornamental as well as useful, a symbol as well as a pivot. Obviously, it is absurd to single out one man as a symbol of the equality of all men. ... In America, where no kings have been, they are able to make a pretense of enthusiasm for a president. But ... let some princeling of a foreign State set foot in America, and lo! all the inhabitants...
...believe this is the case. The Crimson fails to consider the essential reason for the existence of such establishments. If the Student Council poll was accurate, it is absurd to suppose that two-thirds of the undergraduate body are the indolent non-workers which you imply. What sends a student to a tutoring school in nine-tenths of the cases is not primarily a last-minute effort to get a course into his head; it is rather the desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves...
...this has a very definite moral. If Dartmouth--or Harvard--wishes to continue local reform at the expense of public relations, the chances of a successful drive should be carefully weighed. For it is absurd to create town-gown enmity without some sort of return for the sacrifice. So far it has been all sacrifice for Harvard this winter, as Plan E lies in the graveyard and town animosity has reached an all time high. The spectacle is sad; but, if it serves as an example and warning to Dartmouth, Harvard's suffering has not been entirely in vain...
...first place, the idea of averaging $5000 annual earnings after five years is absurd. John R. Tunis in his survey of Harvard's class of 1911 showed that even after a quarter of a century his classmates were earning less than $5000 per man. The number of college students has increased almost six-fold since Tunis' undergraduate days: the college diploma is progressively decreasing in its power to assure large incomes...