Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same day another new Ambassador presented his credentials to King Vittorio Emanuele III. He was M. Jurenev, Ambassador of Soviet Russia. Jurenev with all the members of his staff, imitated the absurd American custom of wearing full evening dress as a diplomatic uniform. He drove to the Quirinal Palace, received a salute from an honor guard, "entered the throne room, engaged in 20 minutes of cordial conversation with the King...
They left New York March 1, 1923, and returned May 16, having steamed nine thousand miles, and crossed the Equator eight times. Actually less than 100 hours was spent on the islands themselves. It may seem absurd that a scientific expedition should spend so limited a time at its objective. The reader soon learns why. The Galápagos are all but uninhabitable. There is little or no water to be had on the islands. Water both for the boilers and for drinking and personal use had to be carried along. The Noma watered and coaled at Panama, sailed...
...absurd American custom...
...have learned to appreciate the psychology of the Bolsheviks, I bear them no more resentment for the harsh treatment which I myself received at their hands then I should if I had suffered bodily injury from a man under the influence of cocaine. They are subject to the most absurd fantasies whose source may be the simplest of facts. The Bolsheviks have a lively imagination, they can start with nothing and arrive at the most exciting conclusion...
...next 20 years. It calculated that in order to meet the necessary payments, interest of from 13% to 15% would have to be obtained on the amounts proposed to be set aside as a sinking fund. Mr. Green on seeing the Treasury estimates asserted: "Anyone could see how absurd the Treasury estimates are even at a casual glance...