Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most foolish things education has done is to force dozens of students through school and college without once telling them how to study. The instructors say, "Aren't you getting this? Well, you had better spend more time on it." The solution to difficulties in learning does not lie in stretching the twenty-four hour day. It would be more worthwhile instead to seek why the difficulties exist. Why is it that sometimes when one sees a certain word in a language course for a fleeting moment it sticks firmly in one mind, while others, curse them, are seen repeatedly...
Sidley leads him into dissipation, introduces him to wealthy friends, seduces his sister. For several chapters Greene's sister Alice runs away with the story, fights her way back to respectability, grows heroic without ceasing to be an outraged, sharp-tempered, occasionally foolish female...
...this may not mean much to the outside world, but to HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES it just goes to show the truth of the old proverb, PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH...
...much debt his city ought to carry. One school of thought holds that cities should borrow as little as possible, cites Kalamazoo. Mich., which burned its last bond in November 1937. having embarked on a pay-as-you-go policy. The opposite school holds that cities are foolish to pass up the opportunity to make permanent improvements when money is cheap, and especially when Harold Ickes' PWA will give 'outright 45% of the money. Leading middle-of-the-roader is New York City's little Fiorello H. LaGuardia. who is financing Relief expenditures through an emergency sales...
Said Dr. Dunlap: "Women . . . seem less abject in their obedience to foolish laws than are men. ... It was once against rigid convention for women to expose their legs in public...