Word: falsehood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This incident was related last week at the American Psychological Association convention (see above) by Verne W. Lyon of Chicago's Institute for Juvenile Research, who believed that "emotion detector" would be a better name than "lie detector."* Fluctuations on the graph might reveal "painful complexes" instead of falsehood...
...taken off gold and devalued 25%. Few hours later police rushed in and arrested M. Verviers. "You are charged with endangering the national credit," he was told. "Witnesses are ready to testify that you said, 'The Government has devalued the belga 25%.' For such a malicious falsehood you can be punished with three months in jail...
...become almost as puzzling as its general evasiveness is the high-handedness of the Administration in certain instances. The matter of the air-mail contracts was one instance of this. A case of the same thing, with a far more sinister aspect because it involved a good deal of falsehood in it, was the threat to the Hawaiian Islands delivered by Mr. Wesley Sturges, a Yale professor of law and erstwhile brain-truster with the A.A.A., last summer in Honolulu. Mr. Sturges came to Hawaii to arrange the sugar quotas to be allotted to the plantations in the islands...
...twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head which bit off the finger of anyone guilty of falsehood...
Bitterly righteous was the wrath last week of Editor John P. Barden of the University ot Chicago's Daily Maroon. Accusing the Chicago Tribune of "unethical journalism," of "deliberate misuse of the freedom of the press," of bad taste, folly and falsehood, he said that the "world's greatest newspaper" could not be called a newspaper at all, but only "Colonel Gump McCormick's daily indignation was expression an of opinion...