Word: amiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general direction of a grind stone in the semi-abstract, won a five hundred dollar prize. Unfortunately, the photographer commissioned to take a picture of this work of art, being a conservative in the matter of posing and of regard for the limitations of his patrons, noted something amiss in Mr. Deckinson's work The judges were recalled and after careful consideration with the artist it was decided that the picture was on its side. But in spite of all geographical difficulties the skill of the artist seems to have given his work an all around excellence which biased...
Last fortnight a London ''bobby," strolling through Hyde Park on his early morning round, noticed something amiss with the bird sanctuary, approached and looked at Rima. She was almost invisible beneath tar and feathers. There were no clues. Public opinion was satisfied that this was the work of outraged friends of Peter Pan, the boy-who-would-never-grow...
Keen observers suspected from the first that something was amiss, because the "scoop" on the $420,000,000 offer was given to the Associated Press. Previously the inside news track on everything connected with the second Dawes Committee has been held by the New York Herald Tribune. This paper received as an exclusive "scoop" the paramount story that J. P. Morgan and Owen D. Young would represent the U.S. in Paris (TIME, Jan. 28). By way of humble return for so great a bounty, the Herald Tribune was the only paper to print, on its first page and in full...
...present Student Council is to be strongly commended for facing squarely the problem of paying off debts incurred through none of its own doing. At the same time, however, that past Student Council deficits are being wiped out it might not be amiss to investigate the whole tangle of official undergraduate finance. Centralized and responsible control of all class and general undergraduate funds offers the most logical solution of future difficulties...
Nitrates can also be used to make fertilizer for farmers. Electric power never comes amiss. Hence the decade of debate, which was between men who thought the Government should keep and run Muscle Shoals to benefit farmers and men who thought the Government should sell or lease the project to a private operator. Among the bidders for Muscle Shoals have been Henry Ford, the American Cyanamid Co., the Union Carbide Co., Elon H. Hooker, the Underwood Power Co., the Consolidated Power Co., the Air Nitrates Corp., the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co., the Alabama Power...