Word: reductios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After this reductio ad absurdum, the Navy will probably be permitted next time to break the news of ship losses as soon as it is sure that the enemy knows...
...reductio ad absurdum lies in the Red Cross' refusal to accept Negro blood donations. To add to these inanities by sending colored troops to Southern training camps is a point of friction that can and should be avoided...
Such a program seems to us the reductio ad absurdum of the theory that a student can be frightened into more effective studying by frequent mechanical check-ups... To impose a universal system studded with terms such as main heads, sub-heads, illustrations, etc., is a waste of time and effort...
Biggest thing in the sculpture room was the late Gaston Lachaise's tiptoeing, steatopygous, nude, Standing Woman; one of the smallest was still the reductio ad absurdum of John B. Flannagan's solid, amusingly diminutive Elephant...
...Hanson's theory was a simple reductio ad absurdum with which neither publishers, Guild nor common practice agree. The Act sets 44 hours as the maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...