Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more fundamental importance than these improvements is the promised over-haul in the duration-of loans system. There is an absurd contrast between the demand for books at Widener and the length of time it allows them to be borrowed, a month by a student and an indefinite period by an instructor. Hope is high that this old complaint will be satisfied by an administration which showed this week a truly friendly desire to serve...
...rapidly expanded. By February, its chairman is better fitted to deal with class affairs than anyone else living in the Yard. At that time he is thrown into the discard because of an election of a class president, a position that today is both meaningless and unsound. It seems absurd to cast out an executive trained for the position in favor of a person "democratically" chosen in an election in which more than half the voters do not know for whom they are voting...
Until the American Legion 1937 Convention Corp. publishes authoritative figures, Mr. Scott and TIME must accept the estimates of statistical experts. Convention Director Richard C. Burritt says, "... the estimates made by other sources of 200,000 Legionnaires or 300,000 Legionnaires being in the city is absurd...
Leggett was inclined to treat the article as absurd. "Strong arms beat that drum," he said, "and they beat it in a business like manner." He inferred that no little drum could possibly pinch hit for his real McCoy...
...Freshmen who attended the Harvard Monthly's Rum Punch last Thursday afternoon, I feel that your editorial on the subject was quite absurd...