Word: dishonestly
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...Dishonest Ear. Through a fold of cloth which covered without concealing it, the metal ear of a sound device at Mills Field, San Francisco, recorded against the noise of airplane motors the following dialog between Colonel Charles Lindbergh and a fellow who had shambled toward...
...idea was to prevent dishonest motorists from using one set of tags for two cars. Previously a motorist would explain he had lost...
...Thank you," they repeat trade slogans, they make change. One of the newest of Dora's progeny, however, possesses a truly embarrassing gift. This is a change maker which, when presented with legitimate coin of the realm, silently and efficiently performs its functions. If, however, some thrifty and dishonest Briton insults it with a slug, a washer, the robot angry, cries: "Please use good coins only...
...Judge may be dishonest. He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors. Politics largely controls Federal judicial appointments in the lowest courts and old political debts can be quietly discharged by appointment of a small group of the judge's friends as receivers. A judge's old law partner may likewise be overfavored with such assignments from the court. A good Federal judge scatters his receiverships; a bad one uses them for political or personal profit...
Everyone knows that most professional sports have now become rackets. Boxing, baseball, all kinds of racing are infested with dishonest men. Poultry raising has not yet been considered among rackets, nor should it be. But last week there came rumors that wickedness, like a greedy red fox, had invaded even the hencoops...