Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Reports are beginning to reach this country of ill-feeling and disturbances between French and American soldiers and between British and Americans. Certain newspapers--not necessarily intentionally--distort the actual facts, magnify trivial incidents and in general do a great deal to spread the seeds of discord that the Boche have taken such pains to sow. Headlines such as the following may be seen almost daily in the news-papers: "British Even More Bitter Against Americans Than French"; "Charm of La Belle France a Myth"; "French Glad to See Last of Americans"; "Dislike on All Sides in England"; "Doughboys Receive...
...this group that the present situation is really serious. Unlike their more intellectual class-mates, they are well-known, often as "good fellows," and hence their side of College life is far more obvious both to the Office and to the outsider. A small body, they distort by their prominence the true perspective of undergraduate life. To such men Dean Hurlbut's words primarily apply...