Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must determine his set of values, he who must become interested in studying, making friends, and joining activities. The idea of maladjustment can easily be distorted through overemphasis by doctors and deans, and despite their worries America is against losing its tradition of Emersonian self-reliance. It is absurd to think that the University should be morally responsible for the fate of every Freshman, for to nurse one thousand mothers' sons can be no official...
...time that all people whom you have got beneath your tyranny should know that your prolonged and absurd resistance is only a means to prepare your escape. It seems unnecessary to say it, since everyone knows it, that you are beaten! Each day you prolong your resistance, each additional life you waste, every fresh home you sacrifice, each new crime you commit is a new count in the indictment you will be brought to face before our justice. For we have...
...gratuitous; no longer can charges of incompetence be based on lack of time. Now the head and tail of a worm that would spoil any theoretical apple have been destroyed. By no means, however, is the problem completely solved. Those who think it possible at one crack are absurd, and those who feel that nothing more can be done are equally unwise...
...events of that pretentious show-a "George Washington Ball"; a ballet set to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake; a "reproduction" of the Currier & Ives skating print; the appearances of Toronto's Louise Bertram & Stewart Reburn (the Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers of skating), of Comedian Eric Wait with his absurd walking stunt, of 83-year-old Skater Oscar L. Richard, who can still cut a Grade A outer edge...
...that deal Transamerica became National City's biggest stockholder, and in 1933 A. P. and his friend John Francis Neylan went on the National City board of directors, where they still sit. Thus the idea that A. P. was marching eastward again, a periodic rumor, was slightly absurd, because A. P. still had a heavy, if minority, stake in the East. His new stake in Chicago banking is even more of a minority stake because 15,000 of Continental represents only a 1% interest...