Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Stride of kicking all moneyed peasants off their farms is expected to be completed by 1931. "For without prompt and vigorous acts," wrote Stalin, "all our talk about liquidation of kulakism as a class will be just foolish talk...
Bernard Shaw is quoted as saying that the time has come to raze both Oxford and Cambridge to the ground. Shaw has said a great many foolish things in the past, but here is a case where I find myself in hearty agreement with his views. The fashion which Princeton, in common with many large eastern universities, has set in recent years of sending over large hordes of students, immediately after graduation, either to Oxford or Cambridge, for the purpose of acquiring an extra coat of varnish whereby to dazzle the yokels back in the sticks, has resulted, it seems...
...Foolish Doodlebugs. Neither doodlebugs nor forked sticks nor any instrument known to man will locate oil under the surface. The best a geologist can do with all the tools of science at his service is to locate underground formations where oil might have seeped. Thus the geologist can prevent useless digging. When he picks the site of a probable well, he studies the subsurface rock and sand, particularly for those minute fossil animals called foraminifera whose deep presence almost always means oil a little ways farther down. So accurate have geologists become in their prospecting, so reliable that...
...trying to invent an automatic and foolproof definition of amateurism. They have not only failed to invent one which is not readily broken in the spirit, however much it may be observed in the letter, but the failure has produced a widespread feeling that the ideal of amateurism is foolish, highbrow and snobbish. The reason for this is plain. An amateur is usually defined as a man who does not compete for money and does not practice athletics as a way of earning his living. The athletic world is full of men and women who do not compete for money...
...Harvard Glee Club will sing the following numbers:- "Meye Have Bereaved", by Morales; "Drake's Drum", by Coleridge-Taylor; "Marching", by Brahms; and "Dirge for Two Veterans", by Holst. The songs for mixed voice are as follows: "The Heart That's Contented", "May No Rash Intruder", and "The Foolish Lover", by Halldel; "Antiphon", by Williams; and "Cantata No. 50", by Bach...