Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with thee. . . . Susanna said: ... It is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord. . . . And the elders cried out against her. . . . The multitudes believed them . . . and condemned her to death. . . . Daniel said: Are ye so foolish . . . that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel? . . . Separate these two [elders] and I will examine them. So ... he called one of them and said: . . . Tell under what tree thou sawest them. . . . He said: Under a mastic tree. . . . He commanded that the other should come...
...building's great vaults, although it is known that the chambers will be two stories below street level, built on bedrock below sea level. Less secretive about its vaults is Federal Reserve Bank of New York, perhaps feeling that the massiveness of its defense system would forestall any foolish foray upon it. Barrier after barrier protects the gold room which lies 85 ft. below street level, can be entered only through a 4-ft. passageway which cuts through a 9-ft. steel cylinder, a turn of which can shut it off. Outer wall below the street...
...appearance before the convention is unprecedented and unusual but these are unprecedented and unusual times. We will break foolish traditions and leave it to the Republican leadership to break promises. . . . Ours must be a party of liberal thought, of planned action, of enlightened international outlook and of the greatest good to the greatest number...
...Thursday. But the choice of a running mate is as yet a trifie less certain. The president, to be sure, would retain his present partner, but Mr. Curtis, aside from his advanced age of 73 years, is politically in-acceptable to many party leaders. There has already been much foolish talk about Mr. Coolidge; there will be more about General Dawes and Theodore Roosevelt. Who will be the party choice is a question which party leaders will have to decide. According to all portents, that choice will not be an easy...
These days of "riots", arrests, and clubbings seem entirely unnecessary. The lack of understanding between the Cambridge police force and the undergraduates seems foolish...