Word: absurdum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America also, to be practiced not for the sake of the sport itself, but for the sake of public renown and advertisement. The development of sport on these lines can be clearly traced in the histories both of ancient Greece and Rome, and the parallel produced ad absurdum ends in the gladiatorial show. . . . It cannot be denied that the way to produce the best athlete and the best player is to encourage the professional if only to create and maintain a standard by which all who go in for sport may measure their own performance. But to attempt...
...University be obliged to pay his doctor's-bills? If one is to judge by cases cited in a recent report of the Labor Board, the answer of both these questions is; Yes. The array of problems that have recently come up for its consideration are a reductio ad absurdum of the compensation law. Among the petitioners for remuneration is a prisoner in the Sing-Sing death chamber. Another man won damages against his employer because, while engaged in his work, he was mistaken for a rabbit by a party of hunters and filled full of buckshot. Another award...
...thinks clearly unless he has thought long and profoundly; unless he comprehends the point of view of those who do not agree with him; unless he has found out the limitations of his own principles; for all theories, principles, maxims, and rules of human conduct can be carried ad absurdum. They all have their proper limits, because at some point they come into conflict with other principles not less true and not less limited. A doctor, for example, is sent for by a patient whose life may depend on how soon medical attendance arrives. The doctor's obvious duty...