Word: controvertible
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...Reports which controvert all the information coming from reliable sources in Rome have been traced by this correspondent to a common source, which is none other than the enterprising and resourceful Francis W. Rickett. Coming out of Ethiopia with his concession more or less in the discard, Mr. Rickett stopped twelve days ago in Rome, where he found neither official nor unofficial sources of revenue eager to take it off his hands...
...Starlight striking star dust should make the general illumination of cosmic space as blue as the daylight sky seen from the surface of Earth. If Professor Piccard makes his proposed flight from Chicago next July, he will have Dr. Struve's purely calculated vision of the empyrean to controvert...
Sirs: Your excellent weekly published this week a letter from one August Wagner of Columbus, Neb., containing a mass of misstatements reflecting on the flour millers of the state which we wish to emphatically controvert. You have been grossly imposed upon. . . . We have kept an accurate weekly record of wheat and wheat products prices for years and keep in close touch with the mill prices to retailers over the state all of the time. When wheat on Aug. 3, 1929, was $1.44 per bushel, Chicago option, Omaha cash was $1.34 to $1.40 per bushel. The mill quotations on standard flour...
James Noah Henry Slee, president of Three-in-One Oil Co., gives a biblical tithe of his income to the American Birth Control League, great controvert of the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. His interest in the League is threefold. He is by hobby a sociologist, by avocation treasurer of the League, by choice husband (since 1922) of Margaret Sanger, the League's founder (in 1921). Between 1921 and 1926 his givings totaled $56,141, which he carefully deducted from his taxable income, because the American Birth Control League exists for "charitable, scientific and educational purposes...
...periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil and the Methodist Church to controvert the rights of American citizens; but one is permitted to wonder what statistics and horrible examples will be added to the phenomena of contemporary life in a pamphlet war for the conversion and diversion of the public...