Word: speciousness
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...animal magnetism will lead to a drastic softening of the national character, the collapse of capitalism, and the resumption of the Geneva spirit. We view with horror the replacement of bourgeois complacency by socialist complacency. Since the disastrous effects of the new theory are apparent, the theory is obviously specious. It leads one to think that science is fickle and ought to be curbed. Darwinism was good enough for our grandfathers and it is good enough...
...could be achieved without coming into conflict with the U.S. Shigemitsu served in London, in Berlin and in Portland, Ore., and was a member of the Japanese delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference in Versailles. As Minister to China (1931-33), Shigemitsu unaffectedly supported the Japanese invasions. His specious argument: "China is not properly a nation or a state." One day in Shanghai, a Korean patriot hurled a homemade grenade at a group of Japanese officials, and Mamoru Shigemitsu lost...
Apparently this solution has been suggested before, and rejected. Now the Administration has rejected it again, and from what we know of its arguments, they are specious. The objection is that when non-science students, who would be given the extended time, receive their blue-books, would disturb already-writing scientists in the same room. But there is no reason why a science student wouldn't benefit as much as his neighbor from seeing his exam in slightly more relaxed surroundings. And it would always be possible to admit the non-scientists to be admitted to the room 15 minutes...
Nevertheless, most graduate students feel that these difficulties, though real, are largely specious. Between seminar reports, they may disparage their fate as that of the rejected, overworked, intellectual, but they will at the same time admit that there is no other undertaking they would even faintly prefer...
...myth is easy enough to debunk. It is based on reasoning of the most specious kind. There is, say the myth makers, an unbridgeable gap between the Democratic and Republican parties. If the Democrats gain control of Congress, therefore, the Administration would have its hands tied during one of the most shaky periods of peace the world has ever seen. But the myth simply is not true. The GOP is relying on the President's Midas touch in the hope that everything he blesses will turn to votes. By tacitly lending his name to every politician who marches under...