Word: distorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annalist index lost about 40% of that 1935 gain, partly because of bad weather, partly because of a sharp drop in automobile production after the year-end. Having passed its winter low, U. S. business was once again on the rise last week, and, though flood conditions will undoubtedly distort the standard business indices for a few weeks, consensus was that the spring upswing would be more than seasonal...
...much of this sort of personal tragedy around me," stated Mr. Frost: "It may come from either victory or defeat-either one may distort one's personal standard of values and produce disillusionment. But although individual sorrows are unfortunate, I feel that they offer the only true subject for tragedy. The tragedy of the 'forgotten man,' of economic misfortune, can never reach great heights. The drama of deep personal woe, which is nobody's fault, but which comes from an inevitable accumulation of adversities, is the only legitimate subject for real tragedy...
...informal photograph of the President at the moment that he happens to be rubbing his nose and then to publish it over captions implying that the attitude reveals weariness of spirit, despair or silence under attack is as flagrant a piece of misreporting as it would be to distort the clear meaning of his reply to a press-conference question...
Unlike most historians, Du Bois candidly admits that he has an ax to grind, declares that "the mass of American writers have started out so to distort the facts of the greatest critical period of American history as to prove right wrong and wrong right." Calling the roll of historians who have written of Reconstruction, he brings charges of omission or bias against almost all, including the Beards, Claude Bowers, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and eleven school textbooks. In his bibliography Author Du Bois is even more exclusive, listing 28 standard works as anti-Negro, twelve as propaganda for the South...
...years gone by, it has been the boast of the Harvard Band that it has managed to distort itself into about 84 formations, but when it announces that the letter today will be No. 100 on the schedule, it is something that even the sophisticated might reflect upon...