Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument. The time for the government to retrench and take stock is not in a depression, but in times of prosperity. In a period when there is considerably little money passing about, when individuals and private businesses are postponing their buying and economizing in every way, it is exceedingly foolish for the State to withdraw its funds from circulation by reductions and restrictions. Its credit is the best in the world; it would have no difficulty in raising the money to keep the shop running at a normal, sound rate of expenses...
...first innings made the situation look more cheerful-until Hedley Verity of Yorkshire and Edward Paynter of Lancashire, with his neck wrapped in bandages to ward off a cold, pulled England out of the innings with 356. In Australia's second innings, Stanley McCabe made himself look foolish by ducking the pitches of England's bowler, Harold Larwood, instead of trying to defend his wicket. Australia was set down for 175 runs. In a light rain next morning, a dismal little gallery of 1,000 watched England run up 157 for four wickets, then clinch the series...
...modern attitude toward sports, or at least the Harvard one, coaches should realize that athletes simply cannot be approached on the subject of training in the way attempted yesterday. The demanded indiscriminate investigations by undergraduate athletes for the purpose of reporting teammates guilty of breaking training would be patently foolish and absurd. Such a course cannot be deprecated too strongly; it would severely injure the growth of a sane attitude toward sports...
...snobbishness and at the same time substantiate most adequately their charge. Can such a phrase as: ". . . . of the ignorance, bad taste, jealousy, and Anglo-phobe tendencies, which are common to a considerable cross-section of the West"--can such a phrase be interpreted as anything but a foolish utterance of an insufferable snob...
...Manila a saleswoman in a white-faced department store said: "I think it is most foolish. The leaders should be spanked...