Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced with such truculence within its ranks, the Cabinet resigned, "ousting" M. Caillaux by a process which superficially resembled cutting off its head to spite its nose. Actually the process was not so rash, for President Doumergue promptly called upon M. Painlevé to step up again into the Premiership from which he had momentarily stepped down...
Absurd as it may seem, this controversy is a very real one at Yale, and, though it may take a Thirty Years War to end it, there is scarcely any doubt as to the ultimate result. It may appear unholy rash to say it, but we venture to predict that Yale--even Yale--will abandon its attempt to effect virtue by compulsion...
...rash or eruption or persistent abdominal pain should be reported at once. The earlier the detection of contagious or other serious illness, the greater the protection to the individual and his associates...
...Darwin suggested two laws, sexual selection and natural selection. Sexual selection has been laughed out of the class room, and natural selection is being abandoned, and no new explanation is satisfactory even to scientists. Some of the more rash advocates of Evolution are wont to say that Evolution is as firmly established as the law of gravitation or the Copernician theory...
...Liverpool, the steamer Iceland sailed out of the Mersey bearing Grettir Algarsson of Victoria, B. C, the rash young man who planned to fly over the North Pole in a small dirigible and only abandoned the plan when his air-ship's construction was delayed. The Iceland was bound for Gilles Land (east of Spitsbergen) where Mr. Algarsson proposed to do geological surveying. He will then attempt to go (by boat, sled and foot) "further north than any expedition this year," not excluding Amundsen's and MacMillan...