Word: deviationism
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Sirs: I like you fine! Every Saturday night I sit up till 12 o'clock to read you through. Tonight I am pausing at page 10, to ask if somebody, somewhere, can't unearth a few new stories about Mrs. Hoover? These that have been served up since before the...
But never with any wilful deviation
A slow progressive shift of the axis about which the earth rotates over a period of months and years has been known for a long time, explained Professor Stetson, but that there should exist such a diurnal effect depending upon the altitude of the moon in the sky was not...
"Some years ago two young men sailed a small boat, built on the south shore of Cape Cod, to the purchaser at Marblehead. As they rounded the Cape a thick fog came on, and thinking they might have to drop the anchor quickly in the night they brought it aft...
"Conscience may suffer deviation in various ways. One of the most common is by small concessions to one's own inclinations, known not to be right, but not thought of much consequence and self-excused at the moment. Stevenson's tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is popularly thought...