Word: evil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would have seen public support of the Teachers' Oath Act. A public deliberately misinformed by powerful newspapers, a public deliberately led astray by self-appointed patriots, supporting by a confusion between nationalism and the dictates of common sense an act that outlaws free criticism and perpetuates existing political evil. Massachusetts no longer knows democracy...
Sirs: Your issue of Jan. 24 moves me profoundly to send you a word of gratitude. Your clarion call to the conscience of the nation on the evil of lynching is as potent as any sermon on goodwill...
...crown which only virgins may wear at their wedding. After the wedding, the crown falls into a mill race and the search for it fishes up the dead child. The rest of the story concerns the fate of an essentially pure girl at the hands of an evil puritan community. Folklore, fantasy and mysticism clutter up the action, and moments of barebone tragedy give way to wobbling make-believe...
Cutting rules are another evil attacked by the Dartmouth. The existing cut system is said to "take the student's mind off his purpose in coming to college, and relegates intellectual responsibility to the dean's office...
This indisputable evil is counterbalanced by numerous advantages which make the o-t-c market virtually indispensable. Since most exchanges will not accept new security issues without much red tape, counter trading is their primary market.* It is also the primary market for buying and selling huge blocks of securities. On the New York Stock Exchange, sale in one deal of $10,000,000 in bonds would cause tremendous speculative excitement and price fluctuation. On the o-t-c market, it passes unnoticed. Secretive firms, loath to disclose their finances, also prefer to have their securities traded on the over...