Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter Boughton Pitkin, breezy professor in Columbia University's School of Journalism, seems to imply. For its gangling lack of intelligence the Professor takes the world to task. Its follies, like its females, show an infinite variety, but there seem to be only nine major categories of human stupidity. "These intermarry and blend in all sorts of combinations. . . . Some rise to glory, while others are hunted by the police. The history of them all is the history of our race, in the main." Though abysmal dullness abounds, Author Pitkin finds that lack of integration in people's personalities...
...expected action of voters and entrenched minority interests, the term has little place in Mr. Baker's vocabulary. The strength of his convictions is such that they must be freely expressed regardless of consequence. And this does not spring from a desire for martyrdom or from a stupid obstinacy, but from the genuine belief which he shared with Wilson that public opinion is not a static condition but that it is a thing alive and growing, capable of response to stimulation and direction of public leaders. Thus the function of men who aspire to be statesmen in a democracy...
Have school boards the right to oust lazy or stupid students? Many a tax-paying parent might feel that, having paid his money, he has his rights. Last May this question interested one Jean West, 19, freshman at the Teachers' College of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) which is State-supported. Suspended for failure to maintain a required standing, Miss West sought to restrain Miami University from expelling her. Her counsel argued that higher education is for everyone, that Miss West, daughter of a taxpayer, had a right to hers. She won her case, but a higher court reversed...
Fumed the able, vigorous Chronicle, Protestant Episcopal monthly: "It is to be hoped that no other diocese will follow the example of Massachusetts. . . . The salaries of all missionaries are small enough but the proposition to reduce them 10% is not only a stupid blunder but a heartless procedure. . . . Things are wrong, grievously wrong-the honor of the Church is at stake...
...policy is designed for the purpose of catching votes without regard to consistency. It promise a social and economic utopia for the masses, the class which ultimately controls the government through the ballot. Nordicus explains a cardinal Hitler principle when he says. "For every intelligent head there are ten stupid ones, whose votes, banded together, suffice to attain the desired end. Intelligent reasoning, according to Hitler, has no place among the modern masses...