Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foolish? Professor Raymond Pearl, Johns Hopkins biologist, thought it might be a good idea to deprive people over 50 of the ballot, on the grounds that such persons are likely to be slugnutty and irresponsible. "The wisdom of the founding fathers," trumpeted he, "led them to the view that youngsters under 21 were, on the whole, too foolish to vote. But not having envisaged the possibility of such weird economic philosophies as 'ham & eggs' or '$200 a month,' it apparently never occurred to them that there might be an age beyond which people would also...
...great blow," moaned 77-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg, now coach at the little College of the Pacific. "I'm foolish enough to believe the action wouldn't have happened had I been there...