Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Considering the ways of this celebrated biological subject, of which more exist in the world than of any other kind of creature and which evolved a complicated social organization some 30,000,000 years ago. Dr. Huxley decided that the ant may be methodical, but it is stupid...
There are those who say that even if isolation is economically possible, the attitude of the people in time of crisis would inevitably lead us into war, the people being too stupid and impressionable to withstand harmful propaganda. If this is so, then why was the proportion of voluntary enlistment during the last war higher among college students than among any other similar age group in the whole country? Evidently, a college education is no guarantee of being unimpressionable with respect to propaganda...
Heroes & Beasts of Spain contains nine grim stories comparable in their nihilism and graphic power to Ambrose Bierce's tales of the U. S. Civil War. It is a harsh, unsparing book. The fascists who crowd its pages are brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...
...premise of those who believe that the undergraduate and faculty should not force students in the College to conform to their own standards of conduct, intellectual behavior, and methods of thought seems to be the idea that all thoughts, stupid or intelligent, sound or shallow, are worthy of enthusiastic acceptance just because somebody has had a big thrill thinking them out. It must appear on reflection, however, that some people possess powers of thought denied to others, that some minds are incapable of formulating rational ideas as distinguished from mere "emoting," and that often those who shout loudest about...
...uncork if only the Government would rescind its "death sentence."* Affectionately cheered was white-fringed old Alex Dow, president of Detroit Edison Co., when he pleaded: "To what end is business being guided, anyway? Is investment of their moneys or speculation for profit to be made safe for the stupid and for those overwise in their own conceits- by policing every traveler on that road? Are we to mark the way of the Lord through business laws and ethics according to the specifications of the Prophet Isaiah -so that wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein? Maybe...