Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the circumstances," says Mr. Cope, "it would simply be dishonest . . . money being collected abroad for this children's relief...
Upshot of the difficulties in Spain, Mr. Cope announced, was that the Quakers were pulling out. "It would simply be dishonest to continue in Spain to spend the money being collected abroad for this children's relief," he said. "Franco has assured us he would like to have us continue the work until we are ready to retire, but it is evident that he wants the food, not us. There is no way of being sure where the food is likely...
...Students were most likely to be dishonest in their school work, which led Miss Omwake to observe that the traditional school curriculum, stressing competition for marks, "may promote dishonesty." Of her students, 33% said they would be tempted to cheat in an examination if they could get away with it; 50% would be tempted if most of their classmates cheated; 79% had actually cheated in an examination at least once...
...corrupt form can never be abolished at Harvard: at best it can be driven underground. When however, this has been accomplished, the Crimson will rest satisfied. Driven underground, the tutoring bureaus are stripped of their sham of respectability. Their work is recognized for what it is; depraved and dishonest. And Harvard need no longer be humiliated by recognizing them as part of her educational process...
...straightforward Joe Lyons broke with his party and resigned from Australia's Labor Cabinet, when inflation and debt repudiation, which he thought dishonest, were proposed as the way out of Australia's financial crisis. Taunted for betraying his party, he replied that he would rather desert his party than his country. The Labor Cabinet fell, and he became Prime Minister as leader of a Conservative Coalition. Ruthless slashing of expenses, increases in taxes and refunding of the debt at lower interest rates prepared the way for a real recovery from Depression...