Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the credit for making this somersault admirably smooth instead of ridiculous belongs to Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director Richard Thorpe (Night Must Fall). Part belongs to British Actor Edmund Gwenn for a first-rate performance as the butler who is submissive, not subservient. But most...
In 1881 Michelson and Morley raced two beams of light against each other with an interferometer (a light splitter). The beams were at right angles. Idea was that if the earth, in its revolution around the sun, was actually traveling through a sea of ether, the effect of ether-drag...
The city of Houston has a law forbidding the raising of pigeons in order to insure that householders' wells will not be contaminated by droppings. Cambridge isn't the only town with ridiculous, unenforceable laws. But that isn't much of an excuse for deliberately writing such laws into the...
Sullivan did not seem bothered by the fact that editorially he was almost universally attacked by the newspapers. The New York Rerald Tribune called it a "ridiculous resolution." the Times recommended that he be sent either to Russia or Germany to observe the effects of censorship, and the Cambridge Chronicle...
" 'Fourthly, to me there is nothing more ridiculous than individualism in either economics, politics or religion. ... I love my fellow man, and particularly, the down and out, the socially disinherited and the economically dispossessed. ... I want, therefore, a religion which has a social aspect. ... I have never been a...