Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time, John W. Boldyreff, Assistant in Sociology and likewise a vacation guest at the Roosevelt household, mildly lamented the passing of what he called "a blunder in the right direction...
...This blunder is even more significant as one of a series. With the officious and unsympathetic air of a pompous egotist, he has constantly terrorized undergraduates suspected of misdemeanors, when human treatment might have elicited accurate information and prevented humiliation and error. We are forced to conclude that Colonel Apted's tenure of office has been detrimental to the best interests of the College and recommend his immediate dismissal on grounds of incompetence...
...only when the crass, nationalistic realism of today is firmly borne in mind can contemporary dilemmas be understood. It is a mistake to look for idealism as a motive in the world of today, and it is a hideous blunder to let idealism put America in the role of the avenging angel. The bases of wars may be economic, but the consent of the people is won only through appeals to their souls. America must not misread the facts and yield to that common hallucination, the call of destiny. Otherwise this country is likely to undertake another Crusade for Peace...
...time in the memory of any Washington newshawk a government official publicly acknowledged the aid of a ghost writer. Copies of a speech delivered by Commissioner George C. Mathews rolled off the SEC mimeographs headed: "Prepared by I. N. P. Stokes 2nd and Commissioner Mathews." It was no clerical blunder. The modest Commissioner made a point of asking the publicity department to place ahead of his own the name of the young lawyer who helped him-Isaac Newton Phelps ("Ike") Stokes 2nd, son of Canon Anson Phelps Stokes of Washington Cathedral and a member of the pious copper & railroad house...
...Their thought here was that the Supreme Court and the Constitution could be put on the spot as a scapegoat in the public eye, and Government could thus move by a short cut to collectivism. They recognize this as a blunder now but they were positive then...