Word: foolishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though we may have seemed highly vitriolic in our condemnation of student apathy, we do not really feel that the student body is, after all, ultimately to blame. It is foolish to belabor the pupil, according to modern pedagogy, for not being interested in the subject-matter. The subject-matter must be vivified and personalized for the pupil. If it is to be of any value to him. Similarly, it is taking an unfair view of Detroit City undergraduates to assert wrong headedness on their side in failing to react to sports, dances, debates, and plays. What we do berate...
Wesley once encountered Beau Nash, professional dandy, who was foolish enough to start an argument. Nash, objecting to Wesley's sermons, admitted he had never heard one, but said he judged them by common report. Said Wesley: "Sir, I dare not judge of you by common report...
...Prohibition is one of the main, if not the main problem we must deal with. . . . To stop by the wayside and discuss publicly what we think or don't think would be foolish. ... I hope we will have some definite report ready in December [when Congress meets] but that is merely a hope...
Gabby Street, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, yet perhaps Street felt after ward that he had been foolish in saying that and letting it come out in the papers where Mack could read it. While the crowd in Shibe Park, Philadelphia, was watching the teams at infield practice and President Hoover marched in with his party, Robert Moses Grove was warming up and a few minutes later the loudspeaker announced that he would pitch...
...because of the business depression they could squeeze American firms and get better terms. This was an unwise attitude and showed a lack of knowledge of the situation. How could a manufacturer grant better terms when he had to look for money himself? I raised my voice against this foolish attitude. Soon after, Mr. Peter A. Bogdanov [now chairman of Amtorg] came to the United States and brought a bunch of Communists with him. It was decided by him to 'teach Americans a lesson.' Telegrams were sent to Moscow with the request to divert orders from the United...