Word: ridiculus
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...over thirty thousand rentals last year, exactly two collisions took place. Neither had results more serious than a shakeup. Putting this rule into effect would be like enforcing the old 18 mile an hour speed limit for sutos: modern conditions make it ridiculus...
Apropos of the communication in your Saturday edition, our friend Quintus Flaccus would be tempted to remark:--"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus". Indeed the whole affair, from the mingled applause and that combination of 'hiss' and 'sneer' which so worries our friend, to the newspaper article, the letter and the now current argument pro and con, smacks of hyperbole...
...Populist party seeks to aggregate rather than to lessen class distinctions; Public Opinion IX, 386-408. - (a) The extravagances of the platform prove this; see platform. - (b) In its eagerness to fight monopolists the Populist party has adopted ridiculus and inconsistent theories: Public Opinion X, 610; Nation...
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