Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the final score of this afternoon's meet will be 67 1-2 to 67 1-2 is, of course, absurd. That is a score which occurs not once in a decade. It is an arbitrary figure, arbitrarily arrived at. As such it may be discarded here...
...Wade and Boylston prizes could be justly dismissed as an inescapable heritage from the period when oratory and elocution flowered on every schoolhouse platform. But at present, when the days of the Senior are made black by the thought of orals, the competition does not seem quite absurd in view of the fact that it undoubtedly develops self-confidence. It is decidedly upsetting to the Senior who has received no training in oral argument and discussion to be called before what in effect is a bench of judges and be expected to plead the cause of himself versus the graduation...
...become in diplomatic language a mere pseudonym for oil, because around that city are rich oil fields. Britain has a protectorate over Iraq and supports the Iraquians (Arab inhabitants of Iraq) against Turkish claims to Mosul. The Turks claim Mosul on ethnological grounds, a claim which is patently absurd, because the percentage of Turks there is small. None of the nations concerned utter so much as one syllable about oil-but oil is meant just the same...
...population, better off? Dr. Nansen says no. They are still kept ignorant. The old system whereby the peasant was in some cases permitted to own land is done away with-all land belongs to the State. The State has a monopoly in foreign trade, the peasant sells at an absurd price to the Government and the Government profiteers outrageously. The author goes on to say-that there are fewer elementary schools-now than there were under the Tsarist regime, that there is a great increase in crime among children. And them there is the appalling spectacle of the: child-prostitute...
...born in 1858 at Shippensburg, Pa.; he is a most genial, attractive, popular gentleman, editor and poet. That Mr. Robert Bridges, American, editor of Scribner's, clubman, author of Bramble Brae, admirer of Roosevelt, was going to sit as a godhead on Ann Arbor campus seemed rather absurd when I heard it. How unhappy, to be sure, he would be; but then, I found I was mistaken. It was the Poet Laureate of England, imported for the little middle-western boys and girls to gaze upon...