Word: absurdity
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...outlying point for only five cents instead of the legally ordained ten? And yet to argue, as Mr. Shepherd probably would, that all these souls will degenerate into safe-crackers, or that they would under temptation steal any sum on which they could lay their hands, is palpably absurd...
...Will the Freshman Class be reduced from 1024 to 585 so that all members may live in the Freshman Dormitories," a CRIMSON reporter asked Dean Bacon yesterday afternoon. "That is absurd," was the Dean's comment, "Equally foolish is the rumor that 50 per cent of the Freshman Class are on probation...
...regard the controversy between" Fundamentalists and Modernists as absurd," said Rev. V. T. Pomeroy of England, Appleton Chapel preacher this week, "because the Fundamentalist's attack hasn't the slightest chance of success. Whatever may be said from a pulpit, it cannot be denied that one lives and profits by a scientifically organized, modern world...
...audience 'because they showed signs of exhaustion.' It was reported I showed 'decided pique,' called the public 'mental cripples,' the critics 'quite insane.' Said I: 'If I felt like it, I would write a play that would take a month to perform. Why shouldn't I? ... It is absurd to treat me as though I were a gutter snipe...
...really so absurd a wild goose chase as it may sound. The islands off the west coast of Africa are believed to be of volcanic origin. They rise precipitously from the ocean, with little or no beach, sometimes to heights of 4,000 and 5,000 ft. The theory, supported by evidence from soundings, is that these islands once formed the tops of mountains in a continent which has become submerged in recent geological times. The chief scientific objectives of the trip are the study of: 1) the geology and the physiography of the islands in relation to the continental...