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There is no suggestion that either fraud or deceit was the cause of the improper procedure and the subsequent miscount. Still, the cavalier attitude of the last Student Government toward their own rules led to the same result...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Has a Recount | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...been the Year of the Rat-and the year of the Communists. In the Chinese calendar, the old year stood for misfortune and deceit. A few surreptitious firecrackers, still forbidden under martial law, last week heralded the New Year of the Ox, which signified hard work and persistence. In present-day China, inevitably, it also signified sorrow and loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Defeat | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...struggle, he declared boldly, was against the "false philosophy" of Communism. It was a philosophy which replaced freedom and justice with "deceit and mockery, poverty and tyranny," which taught that social wrongs could be corrected only by violence, which believed in the long run that war was inevitable. Said the President: "The actions resulting from the Communist philosophy are a threat to the efforts of free nations to bring about world recovery and lasting peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bold New Program | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...than he might out of the buildup to the "mercy killing" itself. The picture is also disappointing because it dodges and neglects so much. The pros & cons of euthanasia are presented in the round; a distinction is made between moral and legal guilt; and something of the misery of deceit is shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...sense of life, in that they attribute to human actions the completely decisive role in the difference between salvation and damnation. Ryder knew that a man could commit irretrievable error, and that in the face of this fact, all others were secondary." Tartly intolerant of humbug, laziness, stupidity and deceit, Ryder thought that "Any man who does a hard thing well is automatically respectable and worthy of respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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