Word: groundlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Supreme Court in Mutual Film vs. Industrial Commission of Ohio, 236 U. S., on page 243.) To Americans the decision of the Supreme Court is an end of all controversy. The fear of the press that regulation of Motion Pictures is an entering wedge is, therefore, groundless...
...with the spirit of things as they are. Although we gave up the idea of a complete vote in the upperclasses some time ago, we suspected that one term would not suffice to instill in the Freshmen a hearty contempt for polls and elections. But apparently our fears were groundless; since the class of 1925, faithfully following the example of its elders, has cast 449 ballots out of the 522 required for the justly famous sixty per cent...
...dismay, and incredulity mark the reception by the student body of your hot-headed editorial in the issue of October 14th on the shortcomings of Holyoke House. Never before has such vituperation been maliciously hurled at this ancient and venerable structure. And the fact that it now invites such groundless criticism can only be construed as an index of the degenerate times in which we live. For countless years, Holyoke House has sustained the loyal allegiance of students fortunate enough to have rooms there, and testimonials of praise are on the lips of all who live to remember its homelike...
...truth is always to be sought for and made known, no matter how unpleasant, but the assertion that Harvard has reached the apex of its glory and is launched on the period of its decay strikes me as both groundless and unpolitic...
...same reason. And this, too, is why New England has been in both cases incapable of appreciating the problem concretely. New England has had no experience either of negro hatred or of Japanese hatred. From the angle of the New England observer these passions appear bad and groundless and jingoistic. But they exist and will always exist and grow when two races so widely separated by religion, tradition, custom and morality as the American and the Japanese are placed in close social and economic relations...