Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea that Hitler is the hired tool of capitalism, that capitalism is sending Hanfstaongl to his class reunion in order to undermine racial toleration in Americas, is as foolish as shouting one's broken English at intelligent people in an attempt to incite them to make fools of themselves over pacifism. The idea of aligning the CRIMSON with German capitalism is even more stupid...
...Penn. student Pollack, who heads Letters column in the March 6 issue. When I graduated from highschool, my father offered to write in advance a check for four years college education, stating I could select the institution. I have since often thought, in declining, I was foolish. Perhaps I was wise-I might have chosen U. of Penn. Thanks to TIME I have endeavored to make up for this lack of college education by assiduously reading your educational weekly since its birth. Similar to "Philosopher'' (not Funnyman) Rogers, about all I know is what I read in TIME...
...World War certain French firms were actually supplying Germany with armaments. Vickers, Ltd., the great English firm, recently admitted that one of its largest customers is Germany. American firms have a seemingly inexhaustible market in China, and the French are similarly indebted to Japan. No one is so foolish as to think that the war between Bolivia and Paraguay to being fought with South American armaments. It is difficult to see why the practice of selling munitions to countries hostile to one's own is act the highest treason, nor why it is not a crime against mankind to make...
...first period, Harvard went into a huddle and was called to attention by W. J. Leather, vice-captain and 200-lb. forward of the Cambridge fifteen. Huddles are not allowed in rugby. Aside from this foolish faux pas, the Harvard rugby team in New York last week gave a much better account of itself than Cambridge would have been likely to do at U. S. football. When the first 40-min period ended, the score was only 26-to-10 for Cambridge...
...blundered by giving out the news that Pope Pius XI was considering a bargain to let Nguyen Huu Hao remain a Catholic if she gave the Church her girl children. The Holy Father is thoroughly aware of the political and religious state of affairs in Annam. It would be foolish to embarrass the French Government with any dogmatic decisions. The Christian girl may have much or little to say about what her children become. And the less the Annamites know about it the better...