Word: groundlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...same reason. And this, too, is why New England has been in both cases incapable of appreciating the problem concretely. New England has had no experience either of negro hatred or of Japanese hatred. From the angle of the New England observer these passions appear bad and groundless and jingoistic. But they exist and will always exist and grow when two races so widely separated by religion, tradition, custom and morality as the American and the Japanese are placed in close social and economic relations...
...third unsupported statement about D'Annunzio is that he is backed only by a small part of the Italian people. The present ministerial crisis in Italy shows that this statement is groundless. Premier Nitti, one of D'Annunzio's bitterest enemies, has fallen; this is a great victory for D'Annunzio, a victory which plainly shows that the majority of the Italians are with D'Annunzio...
...those who speak merely from ignorance, that were he to be vested with the presidential powers we should have an absolute one-man government. After our recent experiences with a potentate in the White House, such fears are entirely natural, but, as I shall attempt to show, absolutely groundless...