Word: absurdum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This reductio ad absurdum of a current foible which has given rise even in shrewd New England to vast consignments of "Mayflower" furniture may cause a smile. But the Levantine inhabitants of Charles Street will still learn to find their appreciation of the marvelous powers of the father of their new country in the value with which he endowed the chairs in which he once found rest...
Boston. Parrying the Hoover charge of '"Socialism!" (see p. 7) was the main concern of Nominee Smith's speech last week at Boston. The technique was characteristically Smithian, taking a text out of his opponent's mouth and working for a reductio ad absurdum. The Boston text was Mr. Hoover's: "We shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide...
...which their budget is certainly one--to be placed even on the more or less confidential files of the Bureau. And it is annoying, if nothing else, to have to fill out blanks about one's personal affairs, home address, father's name, and et cetera and ad absurdum. No intelligent employer will ask for such information and the sole purpose accomplished by the Bureau in requiring it is to make the sensitive applicant more sensitive and the independent applicant more determined to keep to himself what concerns only himself. The sensitive soul will fill out the blank, depart...
...reductio ad absurdum that the chemist and coal man, George W. Rappelyea, of Dayton, Tenn., had in mind when he caused the arrest of his friend John T. Scopes, 24-year-old instructor in the Rhea High School (TIME, May 18, 25). It started in a drug-store conversation; Scopes told Rappelyea that he was still using a Biology text book containing an explanation of the theory of evolution which had once been approved by state authorities and not yet recalled, though Tennessee's anti-evolution act had been the law for a month. Rappelyea swore out a warrant...
...freshman class does not give, it does not have a picture. That reductioad absurdum should convince even the most oafish yearling that coins, not rolls of paper, are needed. Of course, 1928 does not know what use will be made of its money, but that, after all, is a mere peccadillo. Last year the freshmen covered themselves with ignominy by being tight, uncommonly tight, which is a shocking reversal of the proper order, 1928, however, will have no conscientious scruple for parsimony. Forty-two percent of the seniors never drink, and it is rumored that this year the funds, instead...