Word: stupidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guards were posted on the Mississippi levees with orders to "shoot to kill" if any Tennesseean crossed the river to dynamite the levee to save his own land. The Tennessee militia was posted as usual on its side to keep Arkansans and Missourians from doing the opposite thing. "Stupid!" While Rear Admiral Gary T. Grayson of the Red Cross launched a drive for $4,000,000 for flood sufferers, while Harry Hopkins put 40.000 WPA workers on rescue and relief work, while President Roosevelt mobilized Army, Navy, Coast Guard, CCC and announced that he was "taking personal charge...
...only a 10% minority was out for selfish profit regardless of its effect upon the country. He referred approvingly to the Supreme Court's decision expounding the President's power in the "vast external realm" of international affairs (TIME, Jan. 4), and made it clear that the stupid Congress which last year, in extending the Neutrality Act, refused to grant him discretionary power in proclaiming arms embargoes, ought now to see the light. Then he asked his hearers please to excuse the homily but it was a matter on which he felt strongly...
...Brown's School Days, although he describes The Mint in terms that scarcely suggest Thomas Hughes's high-minded classic: "It is an old story:-the sadism of dogs in office, the surprising resiliency of human nature in these men who were being broken ... to obedience, blind, stupid obedience to fit them for service in a new realm where intelligence and self-dependence were indispensable." What Dr. Canby did not say is that The Mint, in its general mood and in its unsqueamish record of obscenity, belongs with such contemporary records as Louis-Ferdinand Celine's untranslated...
...long neglected field of Latin-American diplomacy, Sumner Welles is one of the few trained experts of the U. S.-a veteran of negotiations in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, a fluent speaker of Spanish, a man liked by South American diplomats because he years ago attacked the stupid imperialism of past U. S. foreign policy. Cordell Hull's second piece of good fortune was that when his chance came, it was at a moment when Franklin Roosevelt was eager to capitalize the Hull policies. Success may or may not crown his efforts but at last he has free...
...tutoring schools should not degenerate into "passing C" factories. They should not be expected or allowed to push the lazy, weak or stupid through Harvard at any price. They should not put a premium on animal cunning in getting through examinations. Lastly, they should never, under any conditions, be allowed to write theses for students or to do work requiring the student's personal labor and attention. These are the dangers which have brought down on the heads of the schools both criticism and apprehension, and it is the elimination of these dangers for once and for all at which...