Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual stockholders meeting on April 15, and of the control of his companies passing directly into his opponents' hands. The sale to General Theatres (in spite of its obvious alliance with the Stuart-Otterson interests) evidently appeared to Mr. Fox as the solution of lesser evil...
Incensed. Sir Arthur retorted: ". . . [The work of the Society] is an evil influence-is anti-spiritualist." He called for other members to resign with him. Replied the Society: "There is nothing but an honest difference of opinion. While Sir Arthur regards spiritualism as a 'cult,' the Society was founded to carry on critical investigation...
...colleges want modification. Look at our dry laws, evil as they may be in some ways, from the standpoint of success in fighting drunkenness, and they show up in a better light, England...
Then coal mining fell upon evil days. The industry was economically depressed. Two miners tried to divide the work of one. When the Jacksonville agreement lapsed and the operators refused to renew it, President Lewis opposed any wage reduction, kept Union miners out of work. Strikes were called only to fail in human misery and destitution (TIME, Nov. 28, 1927 et seq.). Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant...
...first place, if one question is answered well enough there is not time to consider those following. On the other hand, to write upon both in such a limited space of time results in superficiality, the greater evil of the two. The final upshot is that the decision of whether the student has a thorough knowledge of his subject or else is merely slipping through on a wide but varied acquaintance with the questions rests upon the corrector, a situation that is distinctly unfortunate...